Just something we haven’t explored.Ĭharles: And simply, we don’t like to do the same thing. But if you’re talking about a challenge – something we’ve never explored – not saying it’s better or worse. I think the next challenge for Caravan Palace is less information.Īrnaud: I think people like Caravan Palace for the bigger tracks too.

Less is best, in some music.Īrnaud: It was certainly not the case on the first album.Ĭharles: There was lots and lots and lots of information. Right now people are saying, “oh what, so now you’re a pop band?”Ĭharles: It’s more difficult to make a track for Chronologic than a track for the first album with many gimmicks, many parts.

Maybe it will be the same with Chronologic. At first, people said “yeah, what the fuck, where are the instruments.” But…no one complains anymore. It was already a slight turn on Robot Face. Adding some new singles, new voices, just to change a little bit. We just wanted to do more songish, poppish format. What spurred that change?Īrnaud: I think it’s just natural. Chronologic still has that, but in a lot of places it takes things in a more subdued direction, maybe even influenced more by hip-hop and with flavors of the more haunting songs on Panic. I don’t know if you feel this way, but Robot Face sort of distilled the electro swing lightning from your self titled. As I mentioned before, I felt that Chronologic was somewhat a departure from previous albums. That’s actually why I felt nostalgia was such an appropriate emotion, because it can be joyful as well as terribly sad. We had “Dramaphone” in Paris, “Midnight” in Compton, and now it’s Tokyo, so why not? Zoé: We’re also interested in filming all over the world. I guess it’s because they watched the previous video and said, “okay, that’s a cool mix of things from the past and references.”Ĭharles: It gives some sense of continuity too. It also had influences to previous music videos like the video for “Suzy,” which references Metropolis and things like that. There’s also the part at the end like Terminator with the red eye. What was cool was their influences from old science fiction. Zoé: We have input for the edit to make sure it’s tight with the music. Where did the idea for the video come from and how much did you collaborate with the director in establishing the themes and such?Ĭharles: Actually, we let the director have a lot of freedom to determine where they wanted to take the video. And this seems like a different robot than Georges. So, the video features a robot that falls to Earth and is mistaken for a cosplayer. Inside, we talk retro-futurism, how electro-swing can evolve, and gibberish. The band mention the challenges of writing music for a largely English speaking audience, and how experiences and language barriers are endemic information in making music, how inseparable bits of identity can change in translation. More than that, it evolves, it refines, it still pops off. Such new lyricism informed a much different song making process overall, with vocal features throughout the album accentuating the new(ish) direction.Ĭaravan Palace’s new work covers nostalgia, “Melancolia,” and features a more stripped down approach that previous Palace efforts. The result was delightful, but words often made the cut based on their sound over their meaning. In previous outings, the band – and vocalist Zoé Colotis in particular – emulated scat vocals. Chronologic – Caravan Place Cover ArtĬhronologic also stages a newfound lyricism front and center. Their newest album, Chronologic, sees them taking a dive into unexplored territory, poppy and hip-hop laden in turns, but still fused with their original ethos of electro-swing danceability.

Stream: ‘Chronologic’ – Caravan PalaceĬaravan Palace’s unique brand of electro-swing has exploded with a nigh crossover-like success, attracting dance music lovers and swing aficionados alike. Caravan Palace’s ‘Chronologic’ sees them taking a dive into unexplored territory, poppy and hip-hop laden in turns, but still fused with their original ethos of electro-swing danceability.

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