{"id":8660,"date":"2016-01-11T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:07:29","slug":"the-penelopes-spellbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/the-penelopes-spellbound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penelopes &#8211; Spellbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>2015 \u2013 8 titres &#8211; 32&prime;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><em><strong>Label :<\/strong><\/em> Autoprod<br \/>\n<strong><em>Style\u00a0: <\/em><\/strong>Pop Sixties<br \/>\n<strong><em>Origine\u00a0:<\/em><\/strong> <span class=\"location secondaryText\">Japon, Takarazuka, Hyogo<br \/>\n<\/span><em><strong>Date de sortie de l&rsquo;album :<\/strong><\/em> 20 novembre 2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Notre avis : [star rating=\u00a0\u00bb3.5&Prime; max=\u00a0\u00bb5&Prime;]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Par Mike S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Apr\u00e8s plus de 22 ann\u00e9es pass\u00e9es au service d&rsquo;une certaine Pop anglaise, The Penelopes marquent leur retour avec un 7e album plus vintage que jamais. Spellbound, un album compos\u00e9 d&rsquo;une poign\u00e9e de titres pour \u00e0 peine plus de 30 minutes de programme, le groupe devenu duo parvient une fois encore \u00e0 d\u00e9passer les frontieres du temps pour nous plonger dans une Pop 60&rsquo;s, mais jamais d\u00e9su\u00e8te.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avec un style qui trahit ses origines nippones, le duo <strong>The Penelopes<\/strong> nous fait replonger dans les limbes du temps, l&rsquo;\u00e9poque des <strong>Beatles<\/strong> , des Maisonnettes ou des Papa &amp; Mamas, d\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res notes de ce nouvel album, \u00e0 commencer par ce single, <em>Here come the light,<\/em> qu&rsquo;on pourrait ais\u00e9ment faire passer pour une reprise des Smiths, qui auraient tent\u00e9 une exp\u00e9rience avec une guitare emprunt\u00e9e aux <strong>Shadows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7HtJr4Zcfc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mais les surprises ne s&rsquo;arr\u00eatent pas l\u00e0, car <strong>Tatsuhiko Watanabe<\/strong> et sa comparse <strong>Chigusa Miyata<\/strong> nous invite \u00e0 nous perdre dans les m\u00e9andres de l&rsquo;histoire de la Pop, multipliant les exp\u00e9riences, \u00e0 travers des balades toujours plus d\u00e9mod\u00e9es les unes que les autres et des sons de guitares surann\u00e9s. On y croise aussi certains de leurs amis, comme <span class=\"_5yl5\"><strong>Nana Ishii<\/strong>, qui vient donner de sa jolie voix f\u00e9minine sur <em>Shangri-La Green<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span>On sait les Japonais amateurs de cette \u00e9poque r\u00e9volue de la musique occidentale, <strong>The Penelopes<\/strong> en font fait leur fond de commerce,\u00a0 leur cr\u00e9do et finalement leur label, \u00e9tant finalement les derniers \u00e0 entretenir le genre, \u00e0 peine soutenu en Europe par quelques rares groupes (<span class=\"st\">The Raveonettes<\/span>, Belle &amp; Sebastian,\u00a0The Pipettes&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sur ce nouvel album, il y a aussi deux titres de <span class=\"_5yl5\"><strong>Splendidville<\/strong>, un autre duo form\u00e9 par Tatsuhiko Watanabe et <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marsh.branch?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Marsh Branch<\/a>. Une exp\u00e9rience qui devrait se r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9 le temps d&rsquo;un album, dans les mois \u00e0 venir, selon Tatsuhiko, himself ! Mais pour l&rsquo;heure, ces featuring permettent \u00e0 <strong>The Penelopes<\/strong> de rev\u00eatir un style plus f\u00e9minin que jamais. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alors, en attendant une prochaine livraison de <span class=\"_5yl5\"><strong>Splendidville<\/strong>, profitons de ces 8 nouvelles compositions des <strong>Penelopes<\/strong>, vintage \u00e0 souhait ! Le plus difficile sera sans doute de trouver une copie de cet album&#8230; Qu&rsquo;\u00e0 cela ne tienne, la version digitale est disponible sur <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/fr\/album\/spellbound\/id1044529115\" target=\"_blank\">itunes<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Penelopes-new-album-out-on-Nov-20th-2015-149130651823951\/timeline\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a><strong>\/<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/fr\/album\/spellbound\/id1044529115\" target=\"_blank\">itunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/fr\/album\/spellbound\/id1044529115\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8664 alignleft\" title=\"the_penelopes_2015_2\" src=\"http:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/the_penelopes_2015_2.jpg\" alt=\"the_penelopes_2015_2\" width=\"228\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/the_penelopes_2015_2.jpg 280w, https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/the_penelopes_2015_2-154x150.jpg 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"_5yl5\"><strong>Tracklist :<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_5yl5\">01 The Penelopes &#8211; Here Comes the Light<br \/>\n02 Nana Ishii and The Penelopes &#8211; Shangri-La Green<br \/>\n03 Splendidville &#8211; Eye Of A Needle<br \/>\n04 Marilyn Lo and The Penelopes &#8211; Fundamental Thing<br \/>\n05 The Penelopes &#8211; All That Glitters<br \/>\n06 The Penelopes &#8211; Hello New World<br \/>\n07 Splendidville &#8211; Back In Time<br \/>\n08 The Penelopes &#8211; Carry On<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Line up :<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tatsuhiko Watanabe &#8211; vocals guitars, keyboards and programming<br \/>\nChigusa Miyata &#8211; bass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ek_9ruh0hSg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8660\" data-postid=\"8660\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8660 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 \u2013 8 titres &#8211; 32&prime; Label : Autoprod Style\u00a0: Pop Sixties Origine\u00a0: Japon, Takarazuka, Hyogo Date de sortie de l&rsquo;album : 20 novembre 2015 Notre avis : [star rating=\u00a0\u00bb3.5&Prime; max=\u00a0\u00bb5&Prime;] Par Mike S. Apr\u00e8s plus de 22 ann\u00e9es pass\u00e9es au service d&rsquo;une certaine Pop anglaise, The Penelopes marquent leur retour avec un 7e album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[705,704,703],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albums-internationaux","tag-chigusa-miyata","tag-tatsuhiko-watanabe","tag-the-penelopes","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamagicbox.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}