Artist photos, video clips, album art HERE
YELLE ANNOUNCE FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS L'ÈRE DU VERSEAU TO BE RELEASED ON 9.4 (PRE-ORDER HERE)
“JE T’AIME ENCORE” HERE (+ VIDEO HERE)
Today, the French dance pop duo YELLE released the video for their brand new song “Karaté” HERE from their upcoming new album L'Ère du Verseau (meaning Age of Aquarius) (pre-order HERE) set to be released on September 4th.
"Martial in its aesthetic, peaceful in its depth, "Karaté" music video is all about matching the track to the maximum. Joris the dancer is such a creative and free mind, he improvises, following every single detail of the beat, the lyrics, the atmosphere. Watching him dance is a unique moment, he catches you and never lets you go. His energy is animal, so rough and sincere. Yelle appears in her childhood playground, she grew up by this river. She is the yin to his yang!"
“Karaté” is the complete opposite of Yelle’s previous single "Je t'aime encore". How so? Well, it's not soft, it's acid. It's not tender, it's hectic. The lyrics are not long, they are one sentence. Looping again and again, invading your brain cells and your body & soul to liberate the karateka dancer inside you. You can hear some traditional Breton music vibes in the way the words answer themselves but you are definitely in the future. A fun future. Bit brutal, but fun. Cause it's Yelle! The mood is amazing! L'Ère du Verseau is the duo’s first new material in six years.
“Je T'aime Encore”, the first single from L'Ère du Verseau is, when taken at face-value, a bittersweet love song. Buried in its rhymes, however, lies the complex relationship between Yelle and its native country. “We're French, and sometimes we're more understood by American people, Swedish people or Spanish people,” Budet says. “They feel what we say and the energy that's in our music, while France is a lot about overthinking, analyzing and trying to put you into a box… That's what the song is about. "We love you, but sometimes we don't get you.' Proper love song!”
The ballad expresses this complicated relationship with clear piano and brooding bass over a syncopated beat. It's romantic, colored with synthetic sighs and imbued with a kind of longing, a rare vulnerability that shines new light on Yelle. The duo’s new direction is amplified in a surprisingly-intimate video that shows an empowered Budet having her hair cut with a surprise twist. “It's actually working,” Perrier says. “When we play it to French people, they get the lyrics. They feel it. There is something very emotional about it.”
The music video “Je T'aime Encore”(HERE) is deeply personal, and is focused both on Julie Budet and hair stylist Charlie Le Mindu. The video was directed by fashion documentary filmmaker Loïc Prigent HERE. PAPER Magazine premiered it HERE.
YELLE - L'Ère du Verseau tracklist:
01. Emancipense
02. J'veux un chien
03. Je t'aime encore
04. Karaté
05. Menu du jour
06. Mon beau chagrin
07. Vue d'en face
08. Noir
09. Peine de mort
10. Un million
Bred in the mid 2000s blogosphere, the French band's primary color disco was impossible to ignore. Jean-François (GrandMarnier) Perrier's gritty synths mixed with Julie (Yelle) Budet's sunny cheers. The pair was joined by fellow producer Tepr on debut album Pop Up. The candy-colored collection was cocky, sexually-charged and ready to party. Language was no barrier for the infectious synth-pop hooks and eye-catching videos, and Yelle soon brought its buoyant party to stages around the world.
The effervescent fizz of 2011's Safari Club Disco burned bright with lush synth atmospheres and layered production. Its songs about love and living in the moment earned the trio an opening slot on Katy Perry's California Dreams tour. After a remix of the star's “Hot n Cold,” they were signed to Kemosabe Records. Tepr left to pursue a solo career, while Perrier and Budet delivered their punchy 2014 LP Complètement fou, a crowning moment that evolved Yelle's kaleidoscopic sound to broader tempos, styles and depths. In the last few years, they've released one-off singles such as "Romeo", "OMG!!!" and "Ici & Maintenant".
Welcome to this next chapter, as YELLE says “Wake up people, we are coming back!”
YELLE tour:
10.22 - Strasbourg, FR @ La Laiterie
10.24 - Villeurbanne, FR @ Le Transbordeur
10.29 - Paris, FR @ La Cigale (SOLD OUT)
10.30 - Paris, FR @ La Cigale
11.04 - Nantes, FR @ Stereolux
11.06 - Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
11.21 - Bordeaux, FR @ Bal Queer
11.28 - Rennes, FR @ Le MeM
12.03 - Metz, FR @ La Cite Musicale
12.04 - CLT Ferrand, FR @ La Cooperative de Mai
12.09 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Little Vega
12.10 - Oslo, NOR @ John Dee
12.11 - Stockholm, SWE @ Debaser
12.16 - London, UK @ Garage
12.17 - Bruxelles, BE @ La Madeleine
12.18 - Lausanne, SW @ Les Docks
USA / Canada tour to come in January 2021
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