formed, it hardly seems likely that they’d make the most fresh-sounding album since the one that lit up the alt-rock charts in 2009, “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” — but they’ve done it with “Alpha Zulu.” It’s not a reinvention nor even particularly different from their previous efforts — the whizzing synthesizers, buoyant chords and effervescent, exhilarating choruses couldn’t be anyone else, even without Thomas Mars’ unmistakable vocals.
That spirit probably stems largely from the bandmembers’ elation at reuniting after eight months of lockdown, writing all of the album’s songs together in a shuttered museum they’d rented, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which is part of the Louvre complex in central Paris; every song on the album except one, “Winter Solstice,” was written by the quartet together . “We couldn’t stop producing music,” said guitarist Christian Mazzalai in the album’s bio.
Despite the tragedy that preceded it and the desolation of the deserted museum and the locked down metropolis around them, the elation of the reunion is obvious in the songs, something that reflects the proverbial zeitgeist that we all felt when seeing friends after too long apart. There’s an uplift and optimism to the songs that makes this possibly the group’s most cheerful album to date — it starts off downright peppy before easing into slower and more introspective songs.
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