Mimi, named after lead singer Jonathan Robert’s cat, is Corridor’s fourth album. It’s effervescent, sometimes melancholic, sometimes hopeful, but always dynamic.
The Montreal band sing in French, and draw from both European and American influences. It’s apparent on tracks like ‘Mon Argent’, which fizzles with Krautrock energy, before going all glitchy and dissonant. This is the band’s modus operandi, to stop the listener in their tracks before incorporating bursts of noise into soft moments of dream pop.
The lattice of complex guitar and synth work from Robert and Samuel Gougoux is key to understanding the sound- wide-eyed melody is constantly changing and being disrupted. ‘Camera’ is overtly psychedelic and layered, ‘Jump Cut’ is not dissimilar to the textures of early Stereolab, while the closer ‘Pellicule’ is a hazy, sweet nod to the Beach Boys, circa Pet Sounds.
So it may not be wildly forward-looking, but what it does, it does beautifully. It’s most likely enough to make Mimi purr.
Available via Sun Pop on April 26th.
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