"I think you're right, there's like a little weird, melancholy, like something between night and day, or, that weird, foggy morning feeling. It's a more complex feeling than joy or sadness or surge in spirituality."
—Nicolas Basque of Bibi Club on the emotional themes in Feu de garde[1]
Feu de garde is the second studio album by Canadian indie pop group Bibi Club, released on May 10, 2024 through Secret City Records. It received positive reviews from critics.
Reception
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Feu de garde received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 78 out of 100 from 4 critic scores.[2] This was the album of the week in the Canadian edition of Billboard, where Kerry Doole noted that the album was getting good reviews and displays the group's signature sound of "pulsating keyboards, driving guitars, melodic vocals and thoughtful lyrics".[3] Writing for BrooklynVegan, Bill Pearis also declared it an album of the week, writing that it "feel[s] instantly transportive, tapping into old memories or hitting an emotion center that you didn't know you had" and praising the "wistful breeze blowing through these 11 songs that make you want to close your eyes, sway and feel it blow across your cheek".[4] In Exclaim!, Alex Hudson rated the album a 9 out of 10, comparing its music to Stereolab's and declaring it "one of 2024's must-hear strokes of genius, crossing linguistic borders with its expression of understated, comforting beauty".[5]
