{"product_id":"requin-chagrin-bye-bye-baby-lp","title":"SHARK SKIN - Bye Bye Baby | LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the revelation of her first album, Requin Chagrin, in 2015, followed by the confirmation of her second, Sémaphore (2019), Marion Brunetto was faced with the multitude of options that a third record could represent. Rather than choosing from the outset, she explored sounds, ideas, and words for months on end. We find her melancholy, her ethereal sensations, but also a self-assertion, underscored by defiant drums. Both the lyrics and the music are more direct. The artistic ambition? To start with dream pop and refine it with rock 'n' roll reverbs, echoes of the eighties, satisfying a need for light. And, above all, to surrender to her acknowledged addiction: instrumental equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus, every opportunity was good to test a synthesizer here, borrow one there, and pluck and re-pluck guitar strings. For Requin Chagrin, a song is a quest, and any means are good to achieve it. With her sheer will but also the support of her entourage, from Nicola Sirkis, who signed her to his KMS label, to Chab (Daft Punk, AIR, Sebastian) for mastering. Sound engineer Ash Workman (Christine \u0026amp; The Queen, Metronomy, Veronica Falls) also distinguished himself, beefing up a sound compression from his English town of Margate that nevertheless avoided any aggression: Marion's renewed energy was captured throughout his work on the ten tracks of BYE BYE BABY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarted shortly before lockdown, and completed during a recording session at the prestigious ICP studios in Brussels at the end of summer 2020, BYE BYE BABY testifies to the inner world of an artist who wants to express who she is while also depicting the world around her. She swapped her cassette recorder for a tape recorder (a Fostex A8 LR), a method that influenced the composition of the tracks and offered as many constraints as possibilities. She remains influenced by Beach House, Molly Nilsson, Exploded View, Pale Saints, The Proper Ornaments, Cigarettes After Sex, John Maus, the Italians Do It Better label, vintage synth and effects pedal demos, Kate Bush, and the Cocteau Twins, to whom she remains religiously faithful.\u003cbr\u003eFor her second album, Requin Chagrin, aka Marion Brunetto, singer, songwriter, composer, and musician, found something better than a port: a \"Sémaphore.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe first album to be released on KMS Disques, Nicola Sirkis's label within Sony Music, with Requin Chagrin as the first signing, \"Sémaphore\" is somewhat in the lineage of the band Indochine but especially directly descended from their common parents, whether in New-Wave, Yé-Yé, English Noisy Pop, or a summer song obscured by clouds. \"Her voice, her universe, the band's sound... I loved everything about Requin Chagrin,\" explains Nicola. It was after the seventeen opening acts for Indochine between February and May 2018 that Marion entirely composed and recorded the 10 songs for \"Sémaphore.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour years after a first album soberly titled \"Requin Chagrin,\" played, self-produced, and released independently, Marion has grown considerably. She plays almost all the instruments on her compositions. While her guitar fills the space and gives an ethereal color to her Rock, her music puts surf in the garage to echo the American Indie Rock scene. \"I love the melodies of her guitar as much as those of her voice,\" describes Nicola Sirkis to illustrate this Dream Pop that leans towards Psychedelic song.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59926404759886,"sku":"0194398441917","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/0357\/4862\/files\/COVER_BYE_BYE_BABY_-_REQUIN_CHAGRIN_c_Guy_Billout.png?v=1781873053","url":"https:\/\/store.sonymusic.fr\/en\/products\/requin-chagrin-bye-bye-baby-lp","provider":"Sony Music Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}