Uplifters Vinyl - Isaac Delusion

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Eight years after their debut, Isaac Delusion announces a new album to be released this fall. Titled "uplifters" (in lowercase), it marks a decisive step in the history of a unique French band, far removed from passing fads and excitements. Survivors of a certain scene from the early 1910s, Loïc Fleury and Jules Pacotte have transcended time to make their music a precious object: pop like no other, which loudly proclaims its Anglo-Saxon influences.

Isaac Delusion is a naturally discreet band despite their hits (from Midnight Sun to How Much You Want Her via Isabella), yet how many other artists have they influenced in recent years? Those once described as gentle dreamers have amply proven that they know how to make others dream. They prove it once again with an album of uplifters, that is to say, focused on the idea of elevation – a nice twist when your name is Isaac, in reference to the astronomer Newton.

This album will be one of spontaneous writing, simple and beautiful melodies, songs out of time and out of touch despite the gravity that still weighs. "uplifters" is there to give a leg up to disenchanted hearts. In the words of the band themselves: "These songs are a tribute to the former self. To this beneficial frustration, this very precise period when you begin to have dreams but you cannot yet realize them." Without leaving room for nostalgia, Loïc Fleury and Jules Pacotte set out to reconquer this buried continent where dreams, sweetness and desires have resurfaced as on the first day.

It is this inner journey that "uplifters" recounts in eleven sunny, pastel-colored tracks, whose lightness never excludes the depth of intentions. "uplifters" is also the story of a hard drive gone up in smoke. The band recorded the demos of an album on it that was set to be completely different. If the previous album, "Rust & Gold" (2017, microqlima) gave free rein to virtuoso explorations, for "uplifters" the spirit of tinkering has taken over, as in the days when Isaac Delusion was inventing himself with next to nothing, in the modest comfort of a maid's room in the Parisian suburbs. As the two childhood friends approached their thirties, the need slowly set in to reconnect with a saving energy, an innocence and a freedom that we thought had been lost with experience and the years.

Since the band's creation in 2011, Isaac Delusion has released two albums ("Isaac Delusion" in 2014, then "Rust & Gold" in 2017 on microqlima). They have sold out venues such as L'Olympia and two Élysée Montmartre (on two consecutive nights), while touring in France and around the world, where a loyal audience has been built up all over the world over time.

Tracklisting

1. fancy
2. disorder
3. parrots
4. not used to it
5. It hurts
6. together
7. magicalove
8. people you know
9. Tell me how
10. Basement Leisure
11. mint water color (bonus)