GrandMarnier is my lover. We’ve lived together for 17 years now so things are pretty natural! We are constantly inspired by each other. Most of the time, he is the one who brings the first ideas, a beat, a melody, some words, and then we start the ping-pong process. Sometimes it's done in a couple of hours, sometimes it's years. There is no specific process, the only thing I can tell is that an exciting life makes exciting energy to create songs, and Covid [during the periods of isolation] turned life into something very unexciting.

It's not specific artists that influenced us actually, but the freedom and exploration of new instruments at that time. People within pop music culture in the 1980s, who were discovering electronic instruments, had fresh ideas. That freshness is my inspiration!

We are slowly entering the less-is-more way of doing, which is actually the toughest way of creating for us. It's easy to layer ideas and sounds. It's way more complicated to make something strong out of it. Same for the lyrics, finding the right words, erasing some of them, repeating some others. At the end we still trust our spontaneity, we just want it to have a stronger sound result.

It's an amazing feeling to run our own label, it's also a lot of work. A lot of annoying work. But these annoying things let us enjoy creation as a great recreation! We love running our little company, being the craftsmen. It just makes you feel very good, very free. You follow your own vision of things, make mistakes, create success, but you’re always learning something. And maybe someday we will give this energy to some other bands who don't want to have their own label!

It's the language I grew up with, it's natural, so it just feels more spontaneous to sing in French. Spontaneity has to be cherished in a world of ‘concepts’ and ‘projects.’ I hate when a band talks about themselves as ‘a project.’

It's kind of a mystery. I think it started with the sound of our music. We are impregnated with American music, so our sound and melodies and rhythms probably have a lot of hooks for international ears. Also, live shows have built a very solid relationship with our audience, and we have done it in the right order I think: clubs, clubs, clubs, connecting very closely with people.

Being invited 3 times to Coachella is a great honour. We are proud of it, and glad our culture is welcome there. We don't overthink this fact, we are just happy for it. 

Making 3 albums feels logical. The first is pure naivety, the second is a big stress because you aren’t even sure you are capable of making a second album, and the third is a kind of climax. Creating a fourth album has not been an option for a while, and we just wanted to release single songs, as we did for Ici & Maintenant, Interpassion, Romeo, and OMG!!! Then we felt the need to produce something bigger than us.
It's a rebirth yes. We started recording bits and bobs and we realised there were great beats and bops! One day, GrandMarnier played the 10 songs we made in a specific order, and it was the right one. That day the album was born. Very naturally.

L'Ère du Verseau pretty much says “take your time to make good things, no rush.” The pandemic is a pause, and the “good” thing about it, is people seem to have slowed down their minds, and are willing to relax and unzoom on their previously hectic lives. Personally, I feel frustrated because we cancelled so many shows for this album, but I have ended up accepting this, and slowed down too. I felt a bit confused without a precise plan but maybe that's actually how we should live our lives, “go with the flow.”

Music and fashion have this one thing in common: attitude. Music inspires fashion, fashion enlightens music, it's a great couple. And when you meet open-minded and matching souls, it makes things pop! L'Ere du Verseau has been the beginning of a great collaboration with PA Hermet, who has created everything fashion related on this album. The artwork and music video are all styled by him. It was great to share so many ideas!

Again: attitude! Play this song loud and see how it makes you want to walk in a very specific way. The narrative of this video is not important, the attitude is. We wanted to create a perfect match between audio and video, and I think we managed to do it, thanks to this marvellous team.

We “deliver” when we are proud of our creations. That's why we are slow. There are big gaps between our releases. I don't think we feel like it is a responsibility. We want to love what we release as much as a lover would!