David Grumel
Beaurivage

The Pain of Living.

It is the mood from which the Frenchman David Grumel manages to draw vital essence to gift us a great album like his "Beaurivage". Starting from atmospheres typical of a musical genre now (unfortunately) inflated, trip-hop, the Frenchman David Grumel manages to find an excellent synthesis between modern and vintage and showcases his taste for the 1960s singer-songwriter style, managing to surprise with the quality of the result achieved. There is a sense of latent paranoia that characterizes each of his pieces, making it special, and the sumptuous arrangements curated by Bardi Johannsson only serve to highlight the Frenchman's great talent.

An easy-to-listen album but by no means trivial, it contains tracks that stick in the mind and don't leave, such as "Freerush," the instrumental "Departure Area" (which with its Theremin truly seems to have come out of a 1960s spy story), and "Overground", but everything is of great class and represents the ideal soundtrack of the restless author's life. The artwork is fantastic (truly of a unique paranoia!) and strongly recommended listening, also to realize that not all today's trip-hop is good as background for luxury clothing stores in the city center.