With words in his mouth like pebbles, Nesles, a literate dandy keeping the flame of a punk manifesto burning, released his new album "Barocco" in 2025 - an Italian word derived from Portuguese meaning "of bizarre irregularity".
If regular visitors won't be surprised to meet the animals that populate his bestiary: bombyx (1976), crayfish (Carquois), or mome raths (Canon-Fleur), they'll surely shudder when Nesles drops one of his masks to reveal himself, to settle a few scores in the course of an uncompromising autopsy (Anatomie/Rien à foutre), to leaf through albums of yellowed Polaroids (1976), or to hammer home his artistic manifesto (Beckett). And although he sings in French, Nesles' original musical grammar is not hexagonal, but haunted by the tense assaults of post-punk, fed on the ethereal vapors of dream/cold/new wave, and shot through with the flayed chords of the lords of songwriting from across the Channel, like Barrett or Drake. New album" BAROCCO " 30/05/2025 (Walden Musique/L'Autre Distribution) Coup de Cœur de l'Académie Charles Cros 2025.
