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Corridor, Mimi (Sub Pop/Modulor)
There’s nothing we appreciate more than these artists with a raw, fiercely instinctual journey, who allow themselves to hold their audience in check by systematically giving them what they don’t expect, connecting chefs together – unsurpassed works and pleasurable failures. That’s all an artist should be, and we should without any form of judgment dismiss all the rest, those perfectionists who tend their records to make nice little stacks, which draw beautiful regular curves of progression. But it happens, sometimes, that some people find a way between those two possibilities, a way of growing up without conscientiously doing homework or being forced to run off the road, roll fifteen times in a ditch and continue on their way to swimming. before boarding a merchant ship under a false name. Examples are rare, but they do exist, and Corridor is undoubtedly one of them.
A young, messy Montreal group (eternal journey, 2015), suddenly reappeared with fierce grace (Supermarket, 2017). Before upping his game considerably by signing with Americans from Sub Pop (Junior, 2019). And suddenly they turn to the big show: Mimi, 2024, 25 ideas per title, a vision that goes from the video screen to the cinema, eight titles in Eastmancolor where everything is dizzying and obvious. A spidery pop gem stuck in kudzu – the abstract, invasive one