2023
Antarktyda
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2023
Lifeguards
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Allez moi aussi je peut oser les superlatifs ? On dit que Maxime Dangles vient de délivrer (haha) le meilleur album électronique de l'année ? Ou bien on tergiverse, on pinaille et on disserte sur le sexe des anges ? Je n'ai pas été accroché par un disque de ce calibre depuis très longtemps. Il me vient sans cesse la comparaison avec Mondkopf, mais comparaison n'est pas raison. Mais c'est un fait, je n'ai pas été aussi sur le cul à l'écoute d'un disque depuis longtemps. Quel talent dans ce disque, loin des poncifs et des modes, traçant son chemin musicale tout seul comme un grand.
Voilà un disque éclectique qui oscille entre ambient, IDM ou electronica. La par belle va à une batterie de synthétiseurs modulaire, colonne vertébrale du disque, qui foisonnent en cathédrales sonore. Ici et là, quelques cuivres, quelques cordes et un pianos discret, pour habiller ces structures émotives. On est instantanément capté, transporté même, par ce grand album dont l'essence même fut, à la base, de retranscrire en musique la vie de galère de livreurs d'une grande plate forme connue pour ses méthodes illégale, pour ne pas dire inhumaine.
Les délivrées, c'est un disque intense, ou la tension est palpable  à chaque seconde. C'est un disque mouillé par une pluie glaciale d'hiver, c'est un disque perclus de fatigue, aux membres douloureux, c'est un disque qui regarde l'aurore de ses  yeux fatigués, c'est un disque d'aliénés ou le bonheur transperce le sens. C'est le meilleur disque.

2021
Archives Records
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2021
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I have insomnia. I take medication that makes me sleep. Without it I will not. It is a reality I came to terms with nearly fifteen years ago, after trying every other method possible for decades before, each more self-destructive than the last. It is part of who I am. Some people are born with a disease. An affliction the pure luck of the draw that is birth has bestowed upon them. For some reason insomnia, like anxiety, depression, or so many other matters of the mind, is deemed something that can simply be changed through sheer will. It is not. And no one, in their right mind or otherwise, would choose to put themselves through the inexplicable torment of not sleeping if they had the choice. 
This is an album about insomnia. It is, however, not a proposed solution. Not a cure. It is not something to “help you sleep.” Ours is an affliction not curable by a mere 80 minutes of sounds. If only it were that simple. It is, instead, the tale of a night in that life. Each hour, each step on the path, each milestone in a night that stretches like an eternity while you wish with all your might to make it the blink of an eye it so easily is for the rest of the world. It is the story of the silent struggle... a lifetime's parade of victories and defeats distilled down to a mere matter of hours. The story of memory... the memory of sleep. The calm hypnosis always out of reach, seemingly so readily granted to the rest of the world as you toil alone. One vigil to the next. The story of a night that might as well be an eternity. Each track was recorded in one take at the time of night that bears its name, on nine separate occasions. 50% of all sales from this album will be donated to the Children's Sleep Charity in the UK, the only charity of its kind in the world specifically designating the entirety of its focus and resources on helping children with insomnia. I was diagnosed with insomnia at age seven. But other than handing me a piece of paper with another new stigma written on it, not a thing else happened. Everyone deserves to sleep. Everyone deserves to dream. And no one should have to be afraid to ask for help. From seventy to seven.