Opinion - Troisième Opinion (2024) Hi-Res

On Opinion's very first album released in 2016, Hugo Carmouze sang for the people in his head. Many garage, punk, psychedelic, noise heroes who had contributed to the emergence of an electric and incandescent music that was hard to imagine was recorded by a 14-year-old teenager in the depths of the French countryside. In almost a decade, Opinion's music has undergone several mutations, always guided by Carmouze's creative madness, capable of chaining together triple albums, folk songs, selected collaborations, harsh-noise or black metal side-projects. He named this twelfth album the Third Opinion to capture the entry into a new period of his life and his musical approach, after childhood and adolescence. On this occasion, he chose to take his time and explore sounds that were hitherto rare in his music. This album, without losing the spontaneity and punk jolts of Carmouze's signature sound, has a little air of eternity. Often more refined pieces that abandon confrontation for a luminous character, a more frankly assumed intimacy. This Troisième Opinion is also the opportunity for the songwriter to definitively free himself from the shadows of his spiritual fathers to achieve a personal, homogeneous sound whose guitar-voice balance is immediately recognizable. It is a "produced" album in the sense that one would have said in the 1960s and 1970s, with often audacious arrangements.