It does not happen that often to listen to a rock band that sings in french, and I cannot deny the first approach can provoke some unease. Moreover I don’t think to say a stooped thing if I say the transalpine tongue is not the most fitting rock music. “Vu Du ciel” is the second album of Trente, band from Paris and alive since 2003, that puts out a dozen of rock songs that are very simple, with an undeniable commercial appeal. It’s a digestible product, in its moving into pop fields, that suffers a not too balanced production, at times even flat and little dynamic, thanks to a valid Mike Stewart anyway (Calvin Russell, Joep Pelt, The Arlenes). In the foreseeable tracks of the album, written with a good sense of rhythm and melody, common places rule, but that could be the smallest of the evils, but for the fact they lack some writing and inspiration. The album is all there. And it’s curious that the many paths in rock fields become just some funky bet (trying to finger the class of a Glenn Hughes that’s not even smelled). A pity, because we ‘ve like the feeling the transalpine band is rather clever. They don’t give personality to the songs, but chants them with fluidity. The promotional bio advertise that Lex Koritni, ex singer of Green Dollar Colour, remained impressed and wanted to tale part in the album in the song “Va Au Diable” (maybe one of the best moments). That does not deny the album is a pure formality.

Flavio Ignelzi