Escapades

The French musician’s giddily maximalist solo debut maintains the spirit of his group Justice’s debut album; though inspired by ’70s prog and disco, it inhabits a singular universe of its own invention.

You may already know one banging track, ‘Force Majeure’, from the BBC’s Euro 2020 coverage. But that's just the beginning of the journey

Gaspard Augé's first solo album turns away from the new wave influences and attempts at pop songwriting that featured prominently in Justice's second and third albums, instead going for a widescreen prog-disco epic that almost seems more like a soundtrack than the score for the absurdist horror flick Rubber that he co-wrote with Mr. Oizo.

Album Reviews: Gaspard Augé - Escapades