Bibi Club (Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque) are thrilled to announce the release of their third album, Amaro, available February 27. The album will be available digitally and on vinyl, and features collaborations with Helena Deland and Dimitri Milbrun. They are also unveiling the title track from the album, accompanied by a music video. The duo performed last month at the Polaris Music Prize Gala, where their latest album Feu de garde was among the shortlist selections.
Bibi Club shares the creative inspiration behind the new single, “Amaro represents a legendary character, a feeling that permeates the length of their upcoming album of the same name. The thin line between death and life, grief and light, a force that keeps us alive. Amaro is an immortal figure between life and death, a place where we mourn. The song unfolds as an invitation to open up, to let loose, to dance, to push beyond oneself, to become greater than oneself, and to touch on fundamental aspects of humanity: grace, love, eternity.”
On their third album, Amaro, Bibi Club invites us to brave the dark beasts that shadow us beneath the surface, and to devote ourselves to the healing power of a fierce will to live. It explores the liminal spectrum between the here and beyond, pointing to love, nature, and community as the unifying purpose. The songs draw a map of a world of its own, following the trajectory traced by the Bibis in recent years. Now out of the living room, we dance in a mental space overloaded with grief and fear in their rawest forms. Following the death of two loved ones in the last year, the mantra “I want to love, I want to live” resonates intensely in each melody; if the heart is a place that never dies, we must reach it as quickly as possible.
Inspired by memorable artistic encounters, tours with Blonde Redhead and Circuit des yeux, and a collaboration with Calvin Johnson, Bibi Club now reveals itself through avant-pop and electronic body music with elements of dark wave and neofolk, simultaneously borrowing from baroque sounds with harpsichords, trumpets, and ritual chants to be learned by heart. Supported by a caring community, including saxophonist and activist Dimitri Milbrun (George Sand) and singer-songwriter Helena Deland (A Different Light), Amaro allows Bibi Club to define itself in both intimate and collective terms.
Stream / download ‘Amaro’ here.
Pre-order / pre-save Amaro here.
