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Mutants Merveilles : beginning with its title, this fourth album by KATEL throws confusion by joining two terms that are a priori contradictory. Is this an oxymoron ? A pleonasm ? The single "Rosechou", a highly addictive queer manifesto, provides a form of reply by opting for dazzling joy displayed as a radical bias: the euphoria of being a fluid body, a different body, liberated from shackles, and free from the "dead old world".
Mutants Merveilles is precisely all about the body, more groove-oriented than its predecessors. Playful, disheveled, even jerky and bumpy rhythms, mixing a number of influences ranging from hypnotic trip-hop to bouncy sixties pop, from Steve Reich to Radiohead. Like Kate Bush in Hounds of Love, whose taste for sound experiments she shares, KATEL chooses to separate the album into two contrasting parts. A welcoming and fluid first side, and then a cloudier side, a darker side with destructured constructions.
Over the years, KATEL has carved out a place of her own on the French-speaking scene, through her high standards, her refusal to confine herself to a defined musical genre and rely on her expertise. Her approach is always dictated by a precise vision and intense reflection, without ever falling into the trap of intellectualized music that forgets to address the emotions.
This fourth album cultivates the art of paradoxes : thoughtful but immediate, disturbing but calming, dense and complex but yet accessible. A mutant album, a marvelous album. And a new stone added to the edifice of a work as demanding as it is fascinating. KATEL has the immense talent of never disappointing our expectations while knowing how not to repeat herself, and Mutants Wonders provides another sparkling example.
