"Roller-coaster feeling, from the floor" Rory Gallagher exclaimed before joining the army of rock comets somewhere in a vinyl groove, ruined by his 200 annual concerts following a successful liver transplant.
Staying under the scorching light of the streets of Marseille after 24 years in the business, going through lows after insane and acclaimed albums, launching EPs like blind arrows towards an impassive sky, returning to the forefront of the scene thanks to the Stranglers, bouncing back with a new line-up: up, down, up, down again, gritting your teeth while keeping your sincerity intact, is that what it means to make your way in indie rock, whatever the cost, on the blinding shores of the Mediterranean?
Loser one day, hero the next in an idiotic chain of darkness and light, temporarily recluse in a ghost town and then without any real transition, splashed again with flashbulbs every night, stage after stage, all the way to the Olympia?
To fail, to succeed, to live or to die, to love and to build, to continue to believe in a succession of chords, that is the tribute to be paid to rock music, this religious lover capable of decapitating as quickly as it seduces, leaving you equally on the pavement or under the ovations, with a simple twist of fate.
With 'Loser/Not Loser', Brother Junior's debut album condenses in a new way the verve, power and drive with which he impressed us on his two previous EPs: Jullien Arniaud is at the height of his powers, creativity and songwriting, propelled by a killer rhythm section.
For the loser this time, you'll have to think again.
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