You can’t listen to Autobahn, a song by Montreal trio Le Couleur released in the middle of July, without thinking of Kraftwerk. Autobahn is also the title of a song and an album by this German group, emblematic of krautrock and electronic music.
There are sounds in Le Couleur that hark back to 1970s electro, it’s true. A background of disco and synth pop too. French pop from the 1980s as well (in the spectrum of Mylène Farmer). Which does not mean that the trio formed by Laurence Giroux-Do, Patrick Gosselin and Steeven Girouard is content to reheat.
His music may well be multi-referential (we highlight the nod to Jennifer Lopez in Sentiments nouvelles), it demonstrates a very current sensitivity. Often less rigid than the pop of the 1980s, Le Couleur’s songs dance on grooves that are sometimes supple (À meets Barbara) and sometimes have ideas of grandeur that are a bit prog (Penthouse).
There is something eminently theatrical about Le Couleur. In manner, too, but that’s part of the game. The narrated passages are distantly reminiscent of Handful of Snowdrops, a rare electropop group from here, which published notable albums, but remained confidential, at the turn of the 1990s. however, more color, precisely, at Le Couleur which, despite the slightly “gristounes” atmosphere, makes you want to dance.
