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mercredi 3 octobre 2007

Vieux Amis (pt 2) : The Good Life


Quelle est la probabilité qu'une école jésuite sévère d'Omaha dans le Nebraska couve simultanément ce qui deviendront deux des meilleurs artistes folk de leur génération? Quelle est la probabilité qu'ils soient en plus meilleurs amis? C'est pourtant ce qui est arrivé à Tim Kasher et Conor Oberst. Amis d'enfance, l'un a eu le succès que l'on connaît au sein de Bright Eyes tandis que l'autre en mériterait au moins autant avec The Good Life. Kasher sort aujourd'hui, "Help Wanted Nights", le quatrième album de ce groupe qui commença comme un simple projet solo, dans l'ombre de Cursive, et qui avec le temps est devenu une entité à part entière. Autant le dire tout de suite, ce "Help Wanted Nights" n'est pas son meilleur (voir "Album of the Year" sorti en 2005) mais c'est une des jolies surprises de cette rentrée.

Originalement conçu comme la bande son d'un scénario du même nom, "Help Wanted Nights" est devenu au fil de sa conception une collection de chansons librement inspirées des idées principales du film. Difficile en effet de trouver un fil conducteur ou de recomposer une histoire à l'écoute de cet album mais c'est voulu. Malgré son processus créatif différent les habitués de The Good Life se retrouveront en territoire connu. On y retrouve tous les ingrédients qui ont depuis toujours fait la magie de leurs albums, à commencer par l'écriture de Tim Kasher qui n'a pas son pareil pour écrire un texte sensible et déchirant à la fois sans jamais sombrer dans le cliché de l'amoureux éploré. L'amour et ses tourments sont pourtant au centre de chacune de ses chansons mais il parvient toujours à tourner ses propos joliment et simplement ("You're a fool for the wounded, I'm a man in need of bandages"), à jouer sur les mots et les sonorités ("You stopped stopping by to say hello, you started starting up every time I called") et à s'inventer des métaphores efficaces ("One man's bed is another man's resurrection"). Sa voix légèrement cassée, hésitant en permanence entre les graves et les aigus, parvient à trouver un équilibre entre ses textes et ses mélodies, échappant ainsi à la surcharge émotionnelle qui pourrait émaner d'histoires aussi introverties.

Ce quatrième album est une jolie réussite et convainc bien plus que le dernier Cursive ("Happy Hollow"), dans lequel le talent de Tim Kasher semble se diluer dans un océan de guitares électriques. Les instrumentations de ce disque sont au contraire toujours délicates, se faisant facilement oublier derrière leur meneur. Même si The Good Life est aujourd'hui un groupe à part entière on sent que tous les morceaux sont élaborés et dirigés à la guitare sèche sur laquelle viennent se greffer les autres musiciens. Et c'est comme cela que ses chansons fonctionnent le mieux... Il y a pourtant de fortes chances que ce soient ces allers-retours entre ses deux projets qui permettent à Kasher de livrer des albums aussi beaux et personnels que ceux de The Good Life.


The Good Life - Picket Fence



The Good Life - Playing Dumb



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Et je ne résiste pas à vous proposer le très beaux duo entre Conor Oberst et Tim Kasher, "Drunk Kid Catholic", que l'on retrouve sur "Noise Floor", l'album de faces B et autres raretés que Bright Eyes a sorti à la fin de l'année passée.

Bright Eyes - Drunk Kid Catholic

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