The teaser video, posted on YouTube for a month, has been viewed 16,000 times. The Detroit group, now composed of Bertrand Cantat, Pascal Humbert and Jérémie Garat, announces the release of a new album in early 2024, 10 years following “Horizons”, its only opus. Detroit will no longer be produced by Barclay, due to “end of contract”, announces its manager Sébastien Pernice. This is the first time that the former leader of Noir Désir has found himself without a record company.
The next album will therefore be self-produced via crowdfunding, as Bertrand Cantat announced on his Facebook page on January 11. To launch this crowdfunding, you need a maximum of subscribers to the group’s social networks. Detroit has 7,500 on its Facebook page, its Instagram 2,630 followers since the first post on January 11.
“The task is complex… This work promises to be difficult”, recognizes the singer on Facebook. But “this prospect delights us and motivates us all the more to move forward. We look forward to continuing what has already been started. 4 titles are (…) completed. Others are in progress. Cantat calls for mobilization – “your presence will be decisive” – and provides compensation for crowdfunding, such as presales, merchandising. “The more of us there are, the more the prospect of this album will become a reality. “, he writes.
“No more need for fascists to eliminate the poets”
Detroit’s social networks are quivering with “Meetings” set by the trio, especially on February 8, 11 and 15, to deliver some written words. Among them, “Each hour that looms seems thicker to us or, conversely, so emaciated that it no longer contains anything of what makes time. Or even “No more need for fascists to eliminate poets, like Lorca on the road to reconquest. One does not suddenly eliminate what is liquidated full time. The group’s first album, which marked Cantat’s return to music at the end of 2013, had sold 150,000 copies. The performer’s solo album, “Amor Fati”, released in 2017, flopped with 35,000 sales.
Bertrand Cantat served a four-year prison sentence for the murder of Marie Trintignant in 2003. He was released on parole in October 2007 following serving half of his sentence. His judicial review had been lifted in July 2010. His record and his return to the stage under his name had provoked hostile demonstrations by feminist associations, the cancellation of his two concerts at the Olympia.
Forced to stop his tour, he let loose on the Zenith stage in 2018, in front of 3,000 people, attacking, in his song “Silicon Valley”, Vincent Bolloré, owner of Vivendi and therefore of L ‘Olympia, but also from his historic record company, Barclay, the Universal label in which he had released all his records.