Nicola Sirkis, singer from Indochina: “I read a page by Marguerite Duras every evening”

Published on November 4, 2024 at 11:03 p.m.

Babylon, Babylon. The title of Indochine’s double album, released in September after seven years of absence, naturally evokes the eponymous tower. This biblical episode where God, punishing the pride of men, blurred their languages ​​so that they no longer understood each other. If automatic translators have since solved a good part of the problem, the era has never been so cacophonous, laments the group, which pinpoints the ambient chaos on titles where the riffs dialogue with pop and electro : war in Ukraine, Iranian women, or even Sanna Marin, 35-year-old former Finnish prime minister, heavily criticized for being filmed partying and for her anti-Russian policy.

If the title of this fourteenth album fits Indochine like a glove, it is also because after a forty-year career, the group also has the air of a skyscraper. A monument of French rock capable of filling arenas – their next tour crashed the online ticket office and two of their three concerts at the Vaudoise arena in May were sold out. Because their hits are a common language, stamped in the memories of generations too young to have known new wave. Let us only mention The Adventurer, among those rare refrains to which strangers dance and hug late at night, with Connemara Lakes and LThe Midnight Demons. “We always do the end of weddings, when the alcoholics are on the floor,” laughs singer Nicola Sirkis.

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