dEUs - Quatre Mains

Belgium's dEUs have released another album.  Called Following Sea, this follows on surprisingly quickly from 2011's wonderful Keep You Close.  The reason, apparently, is that they had quite a few songs left over from the making of Keep You Close which hadn't suited the feel of that album.  Also they wanted to work in a slightly different way; being 'less precious' about how they were recorded.  They wanted to be more spontaneous and it was recorded in between tours, literally getting off the tour bus and going into the studio.  They found it refreshing to be working more quickly.  The quick release came about simply because the songs were ready and they wanted people to be able to hear them.

Quatre Mains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsFfHdqNOWI  is the first single to be taken from this album and is something of a departure from their usual style.  Most notably it is sung in French.  I came to dEUs late and hadn't realised this was the first time they had recorded a song in French, but the French lyric happened purely by accident and certainly wasn't intended to be this way.  Lead singer Tom Barman explains that Quatre Mains started out very differently, as the result of a jam session.   Unable to get it quite right, or work out a melody line, Tom he began talking over it in French and it worked. 

I wish I'd paid more attention in French lessons because I have no idea what Tom is talking about in Quatre Mains, but it sounds good anyway.

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