Choses Sauvages – “Seul”: Being Buried Alive Never Sounded This Good
“Seul” is a track that roars. The power comes from a rhythm section that pulses and pushes; everything else flows because they don’t give in. The atmospheres, the textures, an exquisite guitar moving with precision on top of it all. And the saxophone that personally gets me, the detail that elevates everything. Abrasive and danceable at the same time. As it should be.
Quebec has a scene that never stops surprising, a cradle of talent where every year brings something more interesting than the last. Choses Sauvages have been there since 2017 and have more than enough mileage: Pitchfork Music Festival Paris, Printemps de Bourges, Mad Cool, nearly thirty dates across the United States. Their latest record Choses Sauvages III is on the Polaris 2025 longlist and nominated at the ADISQ. We discovered them late; they’ve spent years winning over audiences.
“Seul” is already available on streaming platforms. On April 18th it arrives on vinyl for Record Store Day as part of Singles 2016-2026, the first time they’ve gathered ten years of work into a single physical object.
Its lyrics deal with limerence, that obsession that can’t tell the difference between love and freefall. A dog digging its hole, barking, afraid of its own shadow. Hearts that always arrive too late. At the end, those solitary night birds end up flying together over death. Alone like two. That paradox is the whole point.
Learn more about Choses Sauvages here
A Canadian band singing in French about romanticizing what destroys you, sounding like New York in the eighties but with something modern too, from Montreal in twenty-six. Pay attention.
