The new Scratch Massive album is chilly. It's as if Maud Geffray, one half of the duo with Sébastien Chenut, let the cold into her bones whilst putting together her 2017 solo album Polaar, inspired by an excursion Lapland. Reunited with her companion from the Naked nights at Pulp, she walks a thin line between glacial pop and electro on her latest album, Garden of Love, whose title is inspired by the English Romantic poet William Blake and was released on her label bORDEL (it's a whole concept).
Over these ten tracks Scratch Massive give us some obsessive, glacial electro-pop, kicking the album off with Last Dance, one of the finest tracks on the record with its heavy bass à la Moderat, hypnotic synths and Maud Geffray's voice lost in the echoes. Another highlight of the album is Numéro 6, which sounds like Neneh Cherry is lost in Berlin on a winter's night. This album would be best enjoyed sat inside with a big jumper when a storm is raging outside. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz