C'mon Tigre
Racines

THE REVIEW

On their second studio release, after the excellent self-titled, C’mon Tigre strengthen the ground beneath them, though it's hard to label travelers like them, but the intentions are clear; a leap into the future that opens up new potential scenarios for this project.

With a sound that becomes more decisive and cohesive, they also find that harmony that perhaps was missing in the first album, where it was only hinted at. It's very likely that the long tour has done the band good.

For example, with “Underground Lovers”, a trip-hop element is introduced, pushing the project further beyond the Alps (as if there was a need for it), into international territory, yet maintaining the synthetic sounds within a bubble of intimacy and naturalness. We'll find these types of solutions even later, in tracks like “Paloma” and with more groove, “Racines.”

I am definitively infected and transported into this futuristic atmosphere with “Quantum of the Air”. It reminds me of Soul Coughing but with all parts played live, without samples.

The vocal element is also significantly more pronounced compared to the first album, more present (even simply with higher volume) and, in general, the singer seems to believe in it more.

There's also the rap of Mick Jenkins and even a typically electro vocoder but on an afrobeat base, listen to “Gran Torino”.

Racines, which in French translates to "roots," "origins," brings us back to a measured ecumenical vocation, already expressed previously by the collective, rather than the pursuit of any national cultural tradition.

The origin is the world.

With this work, C'mon Tigre gives the impression of having found their balance. The taste of the previous remains but there is a greater awareness of their means and a compositional coherence from seasoned musicians.

And it is a privilege to be able to listen to them while feasting our eyes on the splendid boards, each associated with a track and created by ten different international artists, within the LP packaging; really very well curated.