Enfnts Terribles

How was the show?

It was great and the crowd was really good. It was only our second time performing in Belgium. So, it was really nice to see so many people in front of the stage.

You’ve recently released a new album. How happy are you about finally performing it?

I love playing the album live, but I also love to have this kind of separation between the sound of the album. When making the album, I felt that I didn’t want to tour with it. To have the same sound like on the album, I would need a lot of musicians which is very expensive and I was afraid it would be too complicated. But when the album came out, people wanted me to do shows and things started to blow up. Somebody convinced me to do live shows and a little bit later… we’re here.

When I was making the album, I was really enjoying the seventies sound and the pop music of this era, so I wanted to make an album like Fleetwood Mac. In the live show, I want to move away from that and do something more rock and punk. People in the crowd really want to see me get aggressive…

Darlène is your first album. What did you want to show with the album?

At first, I didn’t consider it as my first album, because I just wanted to make a record. It’s something a lot of artists don’t do because people from the industry want to use an album as a marketing tool. I compare it with being a filmmaker. When someone makes their first movie, they want to tell a story and that’s the same case for musicians like me. I just wanted to make an album and wasn’t thinking about it being my debut.

Darlène is based on a very sad and tragic story. Give us a little bit more context on the story and the reason why you chose to give it a musical interpretation.

Noémie wrote a book and I made the album for it. The book and the album were written at the same time. The story comes from her novel and is the story of a girl named Darlène. She’s living in a poor neighborhood and is walking through the streets without really something to do. She’s meeting this American boy from Vermont, who wants to jump from a huge waterfall and die. The story is about the weeks that follow after they’ve met.