It was the book Themes for Great Cities by Graeme Thomson that inspired Orwell's frontman Jérôme Didelot to rearrange Simple Minds songs. This biography, which pays tribute to the inventiveness of the early years of Simple Minds, was a revelation to the musician from Nancy: 'The idea was not to reinterpret songs that everyone had already hummed, but to go and find lesser-known themes in the Scottish band's discography, sometimes drowned out by the radical sound of these early albums, and to offer them in personal, almost solemn versions."

From The Trees in the autumn 2024 #01 playlist at Addict Culture.

Victor Lee Gabriel spent years getting lost in the noise of big cities. But the call of nature became too strong to ignore. With his family, he decided to leave everything behind for another life, in an isolated clearing in the heart of the forest to try to reconnect with what was essential. They restored an old house, and from the ruins a recording studio was born. They built their paradise. They had planned everything, except the illness...

Hugo Chastanet is taking the plunge (or the Channel) and switching to English for his next album, scheduled for early 2025. A way for the singer-songwriter, until now better known by his first name, to get closer to his first musical, but also cinematographic and literary inspirations. Launched as a scout, the single “From the Trees” shows that by changing idiom, Hugo has lost none of what makes the elegant charm of his music: a classic and fluid pop writing, neat melodies, a beautiful modern folk-rock sound, a confident voice but where a certain fragility always shines through.