The 30-year-old from Lyon manages like no other, music and moving image skillfully set the scene and to create special moods. A very special atmosphere it provides its followers and fans around the world now on his first album The Golden Age. The booklet is plain, his songs carry unspectacular name as Boat Song, Shadows or Iron. Admittedly, the album is not the perfect start in the spring, but it also does not have to be. Woodkid offers more, it provides a soundtrack for the entire year, for the day and the night, for rainy days and for peaceful sunsets.
Only on second listen, we see with the eyes closed images are not clearly could have been drawn. From drifting Run Boy Run, about the cool and dramatic Ghostlight which one may well miss the creeps, to complete relaxation on Boat Song, Woodkid here staged music that would certainly not touch us with kid gloves. It is encouraged to think, to stomp and clap, and finally to breathe. His music can, if you do not it gets involved, act tough. However, if you simply can go once, then you can feel might be just the same as he, namely the Sturm und Drang of feelings, carves between youth and adulthood his way and tried an inner conflict with epic and harsh, but also in piano soaked quiet sounds to satisfy.
The Golden Age is definitely not an album that you fully understand the first time around, but it certainly none which one is on the shelf after the second hearing. Quite large Kopfkino from France!
