H-Burns - Midlife (2019)

The record cover shows a woman walking towards dusk - or is it
dawn. After the success of Night Moves in 2015, a wander through
a threatening nocturnal Los Angeles, H-Burns returns with a new
record for twilight. Kid We Own the Summer finds its identity
between a few landmarks such as David Lynch and Angelo
Badalamenti's California, the intimacy of Bruce Springsteen's
Darkness on the Edge of Town, the relative calmness of Suicide's
second album, and the elegant melancholy of The National.In order
to compose, Renaud Brustlein aka H-Burns decided to reinvent
himself once again. He didn't repeat the live configuration that
he used in 2013 with Off the Map, an "electric storm" recorded in
Chicago, with a band, in a single week, with the legendary Steve
Albini. For Kid We Own the Summer, the composer started working
in his home studio, by gradual touches, because there's no place
like home.The result? A melancholy cinematic stroll across
stories of misguided couples, unspoken words that end-up ruining
people's lives, the pursuit of dangerous situations, like an
elegy to the end of adolescence - leading to a place we're unsure
of. Born from a keyboard, a piano and a beatbox, these ten songs
were brought to light, as always with infinite delicacy, by
impeccable guests-friends - strings by Bertrand Belin and
vaporous keyboards by Denis Clavaizolle (Bashung, Murat, Daniel
Darc) - mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliot Smith, Beck...) and mastered
by the great Greg Calbi (Springsteen, Dylan, Paul Simon).