After releasing the irresistible Les pieds chez toi in the spring, Les Breastfeeders return today with Vivre et exister, a new single featuring Karine Roxane Isabel on lead vocals. The Montréal-based sextet also announces their long-awaited upcoming album, to be released on November 8th, 2024. Entitled La ville engloutie, this is the band's first album in 12 years and it is available for pre-order now.
Vivre et exister is now available on all music services.
Along a jerky arrangement where clashing instruments push and pull, topped by a labyrinthine lead guitar part, Vivre et exister muses about freedom. Freedom to not be who you are expected to be. Freedom to reject the role that is expected of you, whether socially, culturally or by force. The song unfolds with verve and panache, later being gently swept into the chorus’ soothing harmonies before starting all over again.
The video for Vivre et exister picks up where Les pieds chez toi's video ended, with the members of Les Breastfeeders being propelled into space. In this new creation by director Philippe Beauséjour, Les Breastfeeders are greeted on an unknown planet by new member Karine Roxane Isabel, who tells them about what has wiped out all forms of life. Buried under the sand, we can observe familiar objects that have been destroyed for a reason we have yet to discover, explains the director. Will the arrival of Les Breastfeeders breathe new life into the planet, or will they be trapped? Which world will the band be sucked into?
Watch and share the music video for Vivre et exister via YouTube.
Les Breastfeeders’ latest adventure takes place in La ville engloutie (The Sunken City). At times tinged with garage, psychedelic, post-sixties-punk, and psych-folk, each episode takes us into different rhythmic and stylistic universes, maintaining a narrative where each song from the album can become a neighborhood, a street, an alley, a door, a room, a person.
Lyricists Luc Brien and Johnny Maldoror tell us what we see, hear and experience there: a world turned upside-down by “Corsaires Satan”; love that stubbornly clings to whatever is left; our lives transformed by the wonder of words, elevated from personal experience to human adventure. Come and visit La ville engloutie, wander through its various nooks and crannies, detours and dead-ends, where people are everything but the same.
After touring across Quebec this summer, Les Breastfeeders are pleased to announce new dates for 2024 and 2025. In addition to La ville engloutie’s album launch show, which will take place on November 23rd at the Fairmount Theatre as part of M for Montréal, the band will perform in the following cities next year: Shawinigan, Jonquière, Alma, Québec City and Lavaltrie. See the list below for more details.
About Les Breastfeeders
Les Breastfeeders (Montréal, QC) make French-language rock n'roll inspired by garage, pop, yéyé, and psychedelia. Over the years, the band has brought their incendiary concoction to North America's biggest cities and across the Atlantic, destroying everything in their path, including the language barrier. In addition to distinguishing themselves on stage with their dazzling guitars, reckless rhythms and relentless earworms, Les Breastfeeders wield the pen with wit, delivering vesperal poetry, while unlocking eternal questions that punctuate the mists of time.
Since the band's creation in 1999, Les Breastfeeders have released three studio albums: Déjeuner sur l'herbe (2004), Les matins de grands soirs (2006) and Dans la gueule des jours (2011); as well as a number of singles, earning the group numerous awards and nominations at the Gala de l'ADISQ, GAMIQ and MIMIs. Throughout the years, the Montreal-based outfit garnered rave media coverage and significant radio airplay on the Canadian college circuit, as well as on SiriusXM and commercial stations in Québec. Known for their explosive live shows, Les Breastfeeders have toured Canada, the U.S. and Europe in their near 25-year career, and have performed numerous times at the Francofolies de Montréal and the Festival d'été de Québec. Some of their most notable performances include the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and a halftime show for the Montreal Alouettes (2019). They've also shared the stage with The Sonics and MC5, among others.
Les Breastfeeders are now made up of Luc Brien on vocals and guitar, Jocelyn Gagné on bass, David Deïas (Mystic Motorcycles, Yardlets) on lead guitar, Maxime Hébert (The High Dials, Uubbuurruu) on drums, Karine Roxane Isabel (Comme un homme libre) on lead and backing vocals, and last but not least, the inimitable Johnny Maldoror on tambourine!
Tour Dates
23/11/2024 - Montreal, QC - Théâtre Fairmount (Album launch)
05/04/2025 - Shawinigan, QC - Trou du Diable
10/04/2025 - Jonquière, QC - Côté-Cour
11/04/2025 - Alma, QC - Café du Clocher
12/04/2025 - Québec City, QC - Le Pantoum
03/05/2025 - Lavaltrie, QC - Café culturel de la Chasse-Galerie