DSLZ have just finished cutting their 4th album Les Promesses, as usual in cahoots with producer Stéphane Prin (JL Murat and Camille among others). Their acoustic instruments echo the three vocalists, whose lyrics remind us that we were born to feel and that feelings do us good! Les Promesses is a astounding album, especially wide-ranging, with mood swings veering from melancholy, to joy, embracing playfulness and subtlety, always vibrant with emotion. This blend of rock, kleizmer, Seventies pop and rai makes for a novel, rich style in Debout sur le Zinc’s music. The lyrics are profound, poetic, humoristic, capturing the mood of the moment and of a generation. They touch on fear for the future, existential anxiety, love for music, the highs and lows in affairs of the heart and yearning for a child. Life is celebrated in all its glory on this album, the promises it holds out and the deceptions it deals out, hopes and fears, magnified and exalted by the instruments mastered by this group of virtuosos, poets, and latter-day troubadours. Contrasting vocals in turn soothe and rock, like a joyful burst of life – of pure happiness. The band pack one helluva punch in concert, and this energy is palpable on the album. It’s an explosion of impressions, sensations, vibrations that cut you to the quick. Eliette Abécassis Author of Qumran (1998), La Répudiée (2002), Mon Père (2004) Screenplay writer for Kadosh directed by Amos Gitaï (1999)