BIBI CLUB - LE SOLEIL ET LA MER Vinyl LP

Like a song through an open window, it feels like we've been waiting a long time for Le soleil et la mer. The debut release by Bibi Club, aka real-life lovers Adele Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque, is sun-kissed and wave-washed, shimmering and chic, a bilingual party overdue after two years that have felt (to everyone!) like winter. "Il est tot, il est tard / Le vent est doux," Adele sings over a shining, opalescent beat (It is early, it is late / The wind is soft): a sound like a heart coming back to life, two feet skipping into shoes and out the door, toward the future. She's been singing for years, including with Nico's band Plants & Animals, but Le soleil et la mer is her radiant coming-out: the announcement of a project that steps from the home and onto a stage, where Adele can fully be herself. The pair named themselves "Bibi Club" for the discotheque in their living-room, where the couple's bibis-their loved-ones-come and dance. With kids at home, Nico and Adele had to sneak away to make music: five minutes here, two hours there. Accordingly, their songs imagine that a family's everyday enchantments might be loaned to the dancefloor, to the nighttime, to a place that's still thumping as the day breaks. Throughout Le soleil et la mer, Adele and Nico set out to create music that is intimate, honest, sparkling with an energy that animates even it's quiet moments-and inspired by artists as diverse as Stereolab, Suicide, Alice Coltrane, and Tirzah. It's a sound as ready for revels as it is for rainy days. Bibi Club will remind you: if it's not sunny here, it's sunny somewhere.1. Le balcon2. La nuit3. Parasites4. L'oiseau rouge5. Le matin6. Femme - Lady7. Bellini8. Le soleil et la mer

Label: Secret City Records