Edges Of The World, The

COMPOSER is the name of an interestingly unexpected duo. They have willingly set their tunes as counterpoint to trendy stereotypes while semantically founding the surprising union on their sometimes spontaneous, often arduous but always exacting writing work. Besides, it is the result of an odd encounter, the result of a week devoted to surpassing oneself in order to give life to a one-night live performance, even though the two protagonists hardly knew each other. Last but not least, this entity is composed of two personalities, both over-thirty dads, not dreaming of world tours, TV sets or sexy fans anymore, but simply of crafting fine albums. Production wise, Eric locked up in his new studio, dips his musical brush into elemental styles and tries his hand at immediately-efficient combinations as well as introspective colors. With "Check Chuck" or "Seven Days", he goes back to indie sound, thus pursuing the experimentations of his first group, Mary Lake. But he also embarks, with the same coolness, on electronic rhymes with "The First Time" and "Aqualung" or on a green break with "Biome" and on a synthetic folk when you hear "Rooftop" or the powerful electro of "Polar Bear". Therefore, the nine tracks of "The edges of the World" mirror this surprising complicity. They offer an electronic sound-exploration in pop harmonies, which manages to take into consideration each individuality nonetheless combining them to bring about the same quirky and thrilling vision of conventions.