dEUS
Keep You Close

I love the Belgian band Deus. Because they don't show off, because they are ordinary people who write beautiful songs. Because they color them delicately or with fervor, but always with a sincere approach and method.

Nine new stories starting with Keep You Close, a wonderful acoustic-orchestral creation, with an airy melody that combines universality and intimacy, a very worthy successor to the classic "Nothing Really Ends". And then, in quick succession, like De Vlaeminck, many precious gems. "Dark Sets In" offers dark and alluring preludes, a latent tension that
explodes in the choruses, just as it happens in the following Twice We Survive, with the excellent contribution of Greg Dulli, fresh from the extraordinary Dynamite Steps with his Twilight Singers. Second Nature and The Final Blast, follow more homogeneous paths, flowing pleasantly, like a stream of warm water on hands numbed by the cold. Ghosts is irresistibly brilliant. Tom Barman leads, followed by minimal and perfectly fitting backing vocals, a splendid
pop song that flows into an electric, biting, and whirlwind ending. Constant Now, the lead single, overturns the usual roles of verse and chorus. Inverting the order of factors, the result doesn't change. A very enjoyable piece. The "End of Romance" is calm, almost bucolic, Tom Barman's spoken words guide the gentle progress of the melody, whose nuances open up patches of clearness, only to flow into a delicate, clear, and precise message, like a Van Eyck painting. It ends with "Easy". And it ends magnificently, as this great album deserves. First, the synthesizers describe a cold, icy atmosphere, then a wonderful finale that recalls the majesty of the opening "Keep You Close", three minutes that you wish would never end.

Like the albums of Deus.