You’d almost think coincidence doesn’t exist. Zoo Baby is what was destined to happen to its alter ego, singer-songwriter Xavier Dufour-Thériault. While he continues to make girls dance with Gazoline and having played bass for Caféïne, he needed to return to what we now feebly call authenticity, the vigor of his philosophical aspirations; to express with sincerity and commitment who he is deep down.

Between the walls of his bedroom, without ever claiming to be part of that American bedroom pop movement born in the 2010s, and although he is of that generation that has never known a world without the internet, it is with that ethos of the new DIY wave that Xavier initially conceived the pop of Zoo Baby.

A music—because "pop" is not an aesthetic in itself, he argues—that is highly attractive, sensual, personal, true, free, and original, with a complex and uninhibited simplicity. 10 tracks about love, dreams, and their opposites that he carried into the hands of Julien Mineau (Malajube).

In the Saint-Ursule home studio of the brilliant producer and arranger, the two, hard workers obsessed with melodies that hook you without warning, built castles of analog and synthetic instrumentation across the 10 tracks. Modern architectures made of layers of atmospheric keyboards, post-disco grooves, fuzzy and mellow strings, faked brass, and layers of reverberated harmonic vocals. Between the opening "Une métaphore pour l’amour" and "Paralysie du sommeil," which fades out into a tortuous feedback, a musical world rare in these French-speaking Nordic lands begins to emerge. Strong. Absorbing.

• 180g audiophile-quality black vinyl record
• Includes an MP3 download card

Album tracks:

Side A
1. Une métaphore pour l’amour
2. Par tes yeux
3. Cauchemar en cauchemar
4. Limonade
5. Cœur de pomme

Side B
1. Pomme
2. Oiseaux de malheur
3. Filles gentilles
4. Le contraire
5. Paralysie du sommeil

 Released February 21, 2020