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| Novice | ||||
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| Released | 1989 | |||
| Recorded | ICP Studio, Brussels | |||
| Genre | French rock, post-punk, alternative rock | |||
| Label | Barclay, Universal Music Group | |||
| Producer | Nick Patrick | |||
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Novice is the seventh studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1989 on Barclay Records.
The songwriting is split between Boris Bergman, marking is last collaboration with Bashung, and Jean Fauque who would go on to write his four subsequent albums. Bashung said about the album that it was a sequel of sort to his experiments on Play blessures . The album has a dark sound, and did not sell very well. One of the song, "By Proxy", is one of the very few original written entirely in English by Bashung.
The song "Alcaline" is a pun on French pop singer Christophe's song "Aline". In 2011, Christophe covered the song for the tribute album Tels Alain Bashung.
In a review that was featured in the compilation OpticalSound 3, one reviewer praised Novice as the only Bashung album other than Play blessures that they enjoyed all the way through. [1] Academic Jean Frédéric Hennuy compared the lyrics of "Pyromanes" and "Légère éclaircie" with those of Nick Cave. [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Pyromanes" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 3:58 |
| 2. | "Résidences" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 3:34 |
| 3. | "Légère éclaircie" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:20 |
| 4. | "Alcaline" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 5:00 |
| 5. | "Tu m'as jeté" | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 4:31 |
| 6. | "Elle fait l'avion" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:47 |
| 7. | "Bombez !" | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 3:02 |
| 8. | "Intrépide malgré la fièvre" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:01 |
| 9. | "Étrange été" | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 3:33 |
| 10. | "Outrage" (instrumental) | Alain Bashung - Jean Fauque | 0:36 |
| 11. | "By Proxy" | Boris Bergman - P. Ives - Alain Bashung | 3:49 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 12. | "Bombez!" (Version 1992) | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 3:04 |
| 13. | "Climax 4" (instrumental) | Alain Bashung - André Georget | 4:24 |
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