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The Parisian band recently performed two riveting performances at Coachella which saw them hailed as an “artist to watch” by the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and Grammy.com, and praise for their live show from the likes of Billboard, Paper Magazine and more. On the heels of their European summer festival run, the group is also set to return to North America for a fall tour that has already seen sold out shows in New York, Philadelphia, Oakland, Denver and second shows added in several cities. See upcoming tour dates below.
“Any Way” follows the album’s early singles “Danza Marilú (feat. Fabiana Martone),” an electrifying homage to Italo-disco and is an anthem for women of all ages for freely moving on the dancefloor; and “Me Da Igual,” three words in Spanish that roll off the tongue, a perfect title for a track of heightened sensuality, and "Love from the Other Side," the first English-language single from the album. These early singles from Pulsar give listeners a look at what to expect throughout the focused but far-reaching new record, influenced by the band’s travels around the globe in support of the 2021 album Tako Tsubo, including sold out shows and festival appearances across the U.S., Mexico, Canada and Europe.
The new album is also a record where L’Impératrice made every decision, a set of songs that truly captured the band’s spirit both onstage and off. The self-produced album radiates the energy and wisdom of a band that has helmed so many dance parties around the world on the way to finding itself and its sound. Throughout, vocalist Flore Benguigui boldly sings of self-empowerment, or of shirking beauty standards, ageism, and drab normalcy. These are apt messages for these incandescent anthems of experience, of being yourself instead of anyone else’s version of it.
While writing the album, L’Impératice also tried a novel approach – splitting into two teams of ever-interchanging members to explore new ideas, led by de Boisseguin. It was a way of incorporating every voice into writing like never before, pulling from idiosyncratic upbringings and enthusiasms. They then passed the tracks to Benguigui, a longtime jazz singer who would sometimes write two-dozen vocal melodies for a song just to see which one fit best. It was an arduous and exciting process and saw the band go from writing through to recording the album in about nine months. This was the sort of self-determination they’d wanted and now found.
By confronting other languages, other perspectives and other territories, and with pleasure as their only compass, Pulsar is the jubilant testament of a band with plenty to say and the skills to say it themselves.
PULSAR TRACK LISTING
01 - Cosmogonie
02 - Amour Ex Machina
03 - Me Da Igual
04 - Love from the Other Side
05 - Danza Marilù (feat. Fabiana Martone)
06 - Any Way (feat. Maggie Rogers)
07 - Déjà-vue
08 - Girl!
09 - Sweet & Sublime (feat. Erick the Architect)
10 - Pulsar
L’IMPÉRATRICE TOUR DATES
June 7 Elbjazz - Hamburg, DE
June 8 Minuit avant la nuit - Amiens, FR
June 9 Francofolies - Esch/Alzette, LU
June 14 Heartland - Egeskov, DK
June 15 Pipfest - Oslo, NO
June 22 Les Nuits de Fourvière - Fourvière, FR
June 29 Europavox - Clermont-Ferrand, FR
June 30 Garorock - Marmande, FR
July 4 Open’er - Gdynia, PL
July 6 Down The Rabbit Hole - Ewijk, NL
July 7 Beauregard - Hérouville Saint-Clair, FR
July 10 Les Déferlantes - Barcarès, FR
July 11 Les Vieilles Charrues - Carhaix, FR
July 12 Les Nuits Secrètes - Aulnoye Aymeries, FR
July 13 Décibulles - Neuve Eglise, FR
July 27 Paléo - Nyon, CH
August 2 - Ronquières Festival - Ronquières, BE
August 7 Sziget - Budapest, HU
August 9 Way Out Fest - Goteborg, SE
August 11 Flow Fest - Helsinki, FI
August 15 Paredes De Coura - Paredes De Coura, PT
Sep 5 The Anthem - Washington, DC
Sep 6 Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA *SOLD OUT
Sep 7 Terminal 5 - New York, NY *SOLD OUT
Sep 8 Terminal 5 - New York, NY *SECOND SHOW ADDED
Sep 10 MTELUS - Montreal, QC *SOLD OUT
Sep 11 MTELUS - Montreal, QC SECOND SHOW ADDED
Sep 13 Rebel - Toronto, ON
Sept 14 The Salt Shed - Chicago, IL
Sep 16 The Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO *SOLD OUT
Sep 17 The Depot - Salt Lake City, UT
Sep 20 Malkin Bowl - Vancouver, BC
Sep 21 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR
Sep 22 Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA
Sep 24 Fox Theater - Oakland, CA *SOLD OUT
Sep 25 Fox Theater - Oakland, CA *SECOND SHOW ADDED
Sep 27 Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Expo Hall
Oct 11 L’Aéronef - Lille, France
Oct 12 Stereolux - Nantes, France *SOLD OUT
Oct 17 Le Rocher De Palmer - Bordeaux, France *SOLD OUT
Oct 18 Le Bikini - Toulouse, France
Oct 19 La Sirène - La Rochelle, France *SOLD OUT
Oct 25 Ancienne Belgique - Brussels, Belgium
Oct 26 Den Atelier - Luxembourg
Oct 27 Carlswerk Victoria - Cologne, Germany
Oct 31 Razzmatazz - Barcelona, Spain
Nov 1 La Riviera - Madrid, Spain
Nov 6 Alcatraz - Milan, Italy
Nov 7 La Belle Électrique - Grenoble, France *SOLD OUT
Nov 8 L'Autre Canal - Nancy, France
Nov 22 L'Olympia - Paris, France *SOLD OUT
Nov 23 L'Olympia - Paris, France *SOLD OUT
Nov 26 Roundhouse - London, UK *SOLD OUT
Nov 28 Melkweg - Amsterdam, Netherlands *SOLD OUT
Nov 29 Melkweg - Amsterdam, Netherlands *SOLD OUT
Dec 1 - Grosse Freiheit 36 - Hamburg, Germany
Dec 8 Columbiahalle - Berlin, Germany
Dec 9 Roxy - Prague, Czech Republic
Dec 11 Gasometer - Vienna, Austria
Dec 12 X-Tra - Zurich, Switzerland
Dec 13 Thônex Live - Geneva, Switzerland
**North American Dates in bold
Photo credit: Augustin JSM
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