• Cardboard sleeve CD
  

Album tracks:

1. Autour
2. La peur de perdre
3. Il fait noir de bonne heure
4. Derviches tourneurs
5. Hu-hum
6. Audrey est plus forte que les camions
7. Les gloires du matin
8. Loup-garou
9. Nos corps (en ré bémol)

Fall 2016 will finally mark the return of Avec pas d’casque after a long silence. Four years after the release of Astronomie, the band is back with Effets spéciaux, their 4th album. Astronomie was an album unanimously acclaimed by critics and peers alike at the 2012 ADISQ awards: Félix for Album of the Year – Critics' Choice, Songwriter of the Year, and Music Video of the Year. At the 2012 GAMIQ awards, they won Folk Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Music Video of the Year. Over a 10-year career, the band's total sales have reached more than 25,000 copies. Effets spéciaux promises, however, to be the group's most accomplished and luminous work to date. A Quebec tour will begin in September and continue until the end of 2017.

The quartet—made up of Stéphane Lafleur (also director of the films Continental, Un film sans fusil, En terrains connus, and Tu dors Nicole), Joël Vaudreuil, Nicolas Moussette, and Mathieu Charbonneau—reconnects here with several loyal collaborators, such as Simon Trottier (Timber Timbre) on electric guitar, Maxime Veilleux (Cheval fou, Le Trouble) on congas, and Benoit Paradis (Benoit Paradis Trio and Bernard Adamus) on trombone. Without straying from the signature sound that defines their personality, Avec pas d’casque demonstrates once again that the boundaries of their sandbox are always ripe for redefinition.