MOYEN-ÂGE

Indeed, the album starts with four tracks of uneven quality, and then continues with the eponymous "Moyen-Âge", eight very good tracks to which they should have added, in my opinion, "Opéra-Bouffe Ou La Quête Du Gras" which would have been in perfect harmony with the deliberately polemical tone of the album.

Indeed, this is a committed work in which the excesses of the digital world are denounced ("Les Clés du Harem"), as well as the inadequacies of political power in the face of growing social inequalities ("Un Goût de Pain perdu") or the confinement of the individual in an egotism encouraged by the new technologies ("A la Cour du Roi Nombril"; see which refers to the cover showing an individual curled up in a fetal position, sucked into the emptiness of his existence, clutching his mobile phone and wearing a disturbing-looking earpiece).

Nothing surprising for those who know Christian Décamps, who is used to punctuating his concerts with diatribes inspired by the woke left and who never loses an opportunity to vomit on religions, Christianity in particular, while Islam remains a taboo subject for him, either out of sympathy or out of caution... The album is also sprinkled with more or less open allusions to eminent public figures, among whom the French listener will easily identify the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, as well as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former president of the IMF.

In conclusion, an album that contains some very good tracks, but that misses the excellence for lack of a more accomplished overall vision. It's therefore difficult to decide between three or four stars, and it's finally the last track, "Abracadabra", a wink to their 1976 "Hymne à la Vie", which finally inclines me to give it the fourth star.

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