L'Impératrice - Pulsar (2024) [Official Digital Download]

With two successful albums and a sold-out world tour behind them, Paris-based L'Impératrice have evolved from an instrumental group founded by music critic Charles de Boisseguin into a six-piece powerhouse whose blend of funk and French touch, disco and deep house also includes the enchanting voice of singer Flore Benguigui.

Their 2024 album Pulsar is a focused but far-reaching record, the jubilant testimony of a band with a lot to say and the skills to say it themselves. Across 10 tracks, L'Impératrice move freely and authoritatively between the sounds they love, bridging hip-hop, cosmic and modern pop with their most unapologetic embrace of French touch and international house yet. Benguigui, meanwhile, sings boldly of self-empowerment, shirking beauty norms, ageism and drab normalcy, with a little help from an exciting group of new friends. Maggie Rogers, a longtime fan who had seen the band several times before, flew to Paris to sing the lean and graceful "Any Way," and tackled the song with an unabashed panache. Similarly, Erick The Architect was so enamored with the sample-based, panoramic "Sweet & Sublime" that Benguigui cut one of her own verses to make more room for him. And Italian singer Fabiana Martone (Nu Genea) created the melody for "Danza Marilu" the moment she heard the disco blast. In these 10 songs, L'Impératrice shows a rare willingness to be honest about life and its problems while sounding like a perfect picture of joy. Pulsar opens like a window pushed into an unexpected world. In the finale of the title track, in which a casual confession of suffering builds to a powerful climax rooted in redemption, the band weaves dubstep, turntablism and symphonic strings into an encouraging conclusion: however we are, it's OK.

TRACKLIST

1. L'Impératrice - Cosmogonie
2. L'Impératrice - Amour Ex Machina
3. L'Impératrice - Me Da Igual
4. L'Impératrice - Love from the Other Side
5. L'Impératrice - Danza Marilù (feat. Fabiana Martone)
6. L'Impératrice - Any Way (feat. Maggie Rogers)
7. L'Impératrice - Déjà-vue
8. L'Impératrice - Girl!
9. L'Impératrice - Sweet & Sublime (feat. Erick the Architect)
10. L'Impératrice - Pulsar



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