Thousand is the moniker of French artist Stéphane Milochevitch and Le Tunnel Végétal is his second album, released on French label Talitres.
There’s a sort of mystical, anonymous charm about Le Tunnel Végétal. There isn’t a whole host of readily available information sprawled across the net, which is crazy unusual in 2018. Add to that an entirely French-spoken record that is positively dripping in gorgeously soulful European pop-noir and we have something incomparably interesting.
One of the standout tracks ‘La Vie De Mes Sœurs’ (‘The Life Of My Sisters’, I think) exemplifies this perfectly; a beautiful, swaying pop song without once overstepping that imaginary “kitsch Euro-pop” line that us stiff English speakers like to draw up. Le Tunnel Végétal is soulful, earnest electro-pop, done at its finest and absolutely demands to be taken seriously.
A comparison that may only be apparent to me (though I do hope not), is a warm reminiscence of The Stranglers 1980’s foray into European pop, the zeal on Le Tunnel Végétal akin to Jean-Jacques Burnel’s French drawl on ‘La Folie’ or even their 1983 taverna-twanging ‘European Female’.
Audio
Tracklist
- Salomé qui danse
- La Vie de mes soeurs
- Long Song for Zelda
- Ma Vénus
- La Relève
- Le Nombre de la bête
- La Nuit des plus beaux jours de ta vie
- La Vision
- Narval
- L'Acte de
Details
Released: March 2018
Cat: TAL097 / Talitres