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ALICE ANIMAL - BIO
Release EP "ANIMAL" 2024
When Alice Animal strikes the strings of her guitar, it’s a fatal dance of mutual seduction that begins. It's hard to tell who's in charge: the instrument, or her body. With her peroxide-blond mane blowing in the wind like a rock n’roll Marilyn, and her shoulder pads jutting out like Klaus Nomi, Alice becomes an explosive creature on stage. She wields both muted violence and sensuality. A graceful performer who isn’t afraid to play a game of unyielding, yet feverish self-control. Wild, vibrant, instinctive, sensitive. Not the type to angle for applause with a wink. Alice is multi-faceted, just like her songs, always breaking the mould, moving forward only as the mood takes her, with velvet paws or with claws out, sometimes both at once. Her vocals, with their clear, assertive modulations, overhang the electric glimmers sparked off by her guitar, while her lyrics emphasize the murky contradictions of humanity, rather than univocal truths.
Alice Animal jumps as many walls as she pleases with a new five-track release: ANIMAL. The conventional boundaries between French chanson and rock n’roll are blown to smithereens. Electricity has definitely taken over, a process that came to fruition on stage, where she heads an all-female guitar-bass-drums trio. Over the years, she has built up more grit, more depth, more power, more intensity.
Strength, density, sharpness, temperament: it all comes from the stomach, from the guts, from the heart. Alice Animal won’t confine herself to a single territory, but instead ventures into international collaborations with two distinct musical teams: one in London with Jim Lawton (singer and songwriter of Electric Enemy) and Vim and the Nation, and the other in Berlin with Erik Alcock (composer and arranger for Pink, Eminem and Céline Dion). The result is immediate and frontal, with breakaway moments in the style of Queen of the Stone Age and Garbage, and a message delivered in its rawest form. Alice Animal unabashedly asserts herself as a songwriter: she has penned all the lyrics on this album, with the exception of “Regarde ailleurs”, a track written by Kent, which offers a double-edged vision of couplehood. The tangy riffs of “A quoi tu joues?” bleed into a dejected wake-up call, while a hex-like thunderbolt tears through “Ensorcelée”. The conclusion comes with “J'ai oublié le nom des oiseaux”, an atmospheric rock song that’s like an April rain falling on a lover’s memories. Alice has achieved her transformation, a confident, battle-hardened Amazon who leaves no doubt as to who is in charge.
