{"id":31358,"date":"2025-02-25T07:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=31358"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:05:11","slug":"new-album-the-liminanas-faded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/new-album-the-liminanas-faded\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: The Limi\u00f1anas || Faded"},"content":{"rendered":"

After releasing a run of must-have LPs, French garage psych duo Lionel & Marie Limi\u00f1ana<\/a> have worked with big names like Pascal Comelade<\/a> and Laurent Garnier<\/a>, and they also ventured into compelling film soundtracks<\/a>, but at their core they still deliver the same addictive rhythms\u2014bells and reverb galore\u2014as when I first saw them live some 15 years ago. On their new full-length album Faded<\/em><\/a>, it all comes together in 13 new tracks, thematically centered around the dimmed glow of movie stars from the past. That brings along quite a few emotions, full of loving nostalgia, such as in the beautiful girl group-like title track: “Is it only me \/\/ Who sees all that she used to be?”<\/p>\n

We get cinematic instrumentals (Spirale<\/em>, The Dancer<\/em>), original songs with that characteristic, bewitching sound (Tu Viens Marie<\/em>, Autour De Chez Moi<\/em>), and successful covers (a tribute to the late Fran\u00e7oise Hardy in O\u00f9 Va La Chance<\/em>, a sultry version of Richard Berry’s Louie Louie<\/em>), but it is especially the high-class collaborations that are remarkable (Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Bertrand Belin, Rover, Penny, Juniore’s Anna Jean, Jon Spencer & Pascal Comelade). All in all, this versatile record takes us on an exciting tour through the hazy, haunting dreamscape that is Hollywood: “A prisoner of beauty in the Theatre of Cruelty \/\/ Paradoxical curse of the monied church.”<\/p>\n