The Fonck artillery is back with an album that mirrors the previous one but doesn't stop there! Yarol Poupaud, guitarist of FFF, provides the explanations…
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The temptation is great not to see U Scream than a sequel to I Scream, a “simple” extension. We imagine that it is not that simple, precisely…
It’s not necessarily more complicated either (Laughs)! In fact, given that we had gone through a discographic desert of twenty-three years, from the moment we decided to get back into it, it was as if the planets had aligned and we had opened a Pandora's box to find ourselves with almost thirty songs! A real nice surprise for us because, although we had tried several song tracks before this, we had never been satisfied with them. There, we found ourselves faced with the obligation to make choices.
A problem of the rich in a way…
Quite. Wondering what we were doing. First there was the idea of ​​a double album. To say that it would perhaps be a shame to “throw out” everything at once, that it would have been too much to digest at once, especially given the way music is consumed today. We therefore focused on the songs which were the most advanced, on which Marco (Prince, vocals) had more ideas for his lyrics, and that gave I Scream. In fact, these are two albums recorded at the same time, on the same sessions, as far as the music is concerned, before being reworked afterwards, at the same time as the vocal takes and certain arrangements in terms of the structures of the pieces, to give U Scream Today. This is why the visuals of the two albums respond to each other. They are part of the same wagon, which work together but also independently of each other. Even if, later, once they have each had their own life, we can bring them together for a special edition in the form of a double album…
This “eruption” of songs dates back three or four years now. This is often the gap that there can be between the time of writing and the promotion of an album. How do they correspond to the state of mind of FFF in 2025, with the evolution that any artist can experience in a few years?
Some are even older than that. On this album, “DĂ©rive sentimentale” or “Keep On” were already in embryonic form seven or eight years ago. The goal of the game is, ideally, not to get tired of a song and to be able to listen to it again five or ten years later. We're going to play them on stage, these songs, they'll stick with us for a while! If we were already fed up with it, that wouldn't be a very good sign… If we still play these things like “Silver Groover” that we wrote in 1992, luckily we love them and they still speak to us!
