Chocolate / Elegant Piano - CD
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CD Jewel Case
Album tracks:
1. Elegant Piano
2. Little Girl
3. Albertine
4. Like a dog
5. Wish you
6. Jean Ferrat
7. Be beautiful
8. Half man half wolf
9. Your small breasts
10. Your apartment
11. Song for an unfortunate
12. Saliva
Without completely abandoning its garage rock origins à la Stones-Velvet Underground, the Montreal combo led by Jimmy Hunt draws as much on French pop song from the 60s and 70s as on North American roots-country-rock roots on this first full album. . Charlebois has already been there and it is precisely of him, and of others like Dutronc, Dylan, the Wampas or Hasil Adkins, that one thinks of when listening to this “ Elegant Piano ”.
If the winks are numerous, it would however be too easy to accuse Chocolat of simple revisionism. Jimmy Hunt adopts the "pop singer-crooner" style with just enough distance not to fall into caricature, and his texts, rather well written and colorful, reveal a character that is romantic, funny and disturbing at the same time. For their part, the musicians demonstrate an astonishing mastery of the sound and style specific to this vast sound register. – Patrick Baillargeon, See.ca