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L'Emprise (English: Influence/ The Grip) is the twelfth studio album by French recording artist Mylène Farmer, released on 25 November 2022 by Stuffed Monkey. The album was produced by Yoann Lemoine, AaRON and Moby, among others. Described as a return to the darker instrumentation of her earlier records, L'Emprise is a concept album which deals with a person who is under psychological manipulation and breaks free from it. In Farmer's words: "Who has not crossed the path of a so-called narcissistic pervert? Who has not one day been under the influence ("l'emprise") of such a person? Feminine or masculine, it doesn't matter. Ultrasensitive beings inhabited by doubts that gnaw at them are ideal prey. The important thing is to identify it and try to combat this grip. It's a theme that upsets me and often puts me in a black rage."
L'Emprise received positive reviews from music critics, with many noting it as a return to form for Farmer. Reviewers generally praised the album's cohesiveness and melancholic atmosphere, but some lamented the absence of radio-friendly songs.
Commercially, the album was successful, achieving the gold status in France (50,000 copies sold) within the first week of its release. The album also peaked at number one in France, Wallonia, and Switzerland, making it Farmer's first release to do so.
The album spawned four singles: "À tout jamais", "Rayon vert" featuring French duo AaRON, "Rallumer les étoiles, and the title track "L'Emprise." To further support the album, Farmer embarked on her Nevermore 2023 tour, her first tour since 2019 and the first one to play completely in stadiums.
Following the announcement of the Nevermore 2023 stadium tour, several news outlets speculated that a new studio album would be released to coincide with the tour. In the spring of 2022, media outlets detailed that Farmer was working on a new record with Woodkid and Moby as well as the bands Archive and AaRON. The singer had previously collaborated with Moby and Archive on the 2010 album Bleu noir.
According to Farmer, Lemoine approached her with the idea of collaborating after "she had long wanted to approach him." Lemoine sent her songs from his second studio album S16 in 2020 and the two struck up a friendship soon after. Work on the album commenced in 2021 and lasted a year. Lemoine would first compose the music and melody and send it to Farmer with his own voice, who would then write the lyrics. Meanwhile, Farmer and Moby worked on two songs remotely. The recording of the album took place at Studio Guillaume Tell in Paris, in the presence of a symphonic orchestra.
L'Emprise is a pop record which incorporates synth-pop, electropop, new wave and baroque pop influences. The instrumentation features predominately violins, synths and drums.
The album opens with "Invisibles," a symphonic ballad that was the first song composed for the album. Lyrically, it deals with religious love. The second song, lead single "À tout jamais" is a mid-tempo electropop song which "sounds like a call to get out of control." The lyrics are addressed to a narcissistic person. Jean Blaquière for Sud Ouest noted that the album's release coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, alluding that the lyrics, especially those of the lead single and "L'Emprise," deal with power dynamics in a relationship. The third song, "Que l'aube est belle," is a ballad that features ornamental orchestration, while its lyrics deal with Farmer's anxieties observing the world. Exploring the power dynamics of relationships and the darker aspects of human nature, the title track has been compared to lead single "À tout jamais," both sonically and lyrically. "Do You Know Who I Am" is a downtempo electropop song in which Farmer "recounts the harsh observation of having been too faded in favor of the other." The sixth song, "Rallumer les étoiles" is an up-tempo song featuring new wave instrumentation. Exploring themes that are characteristic of Farmer's work, the song deals with God, angels and love, and references Guillaume Apollinaire's play The Breasts of Tiresias. Critics noted its similarity to Eurythmics, Farmer's 2010 song "Bleu noir" and Moby's 1999 album Play.
L'Emprise
L'Emprise (English: Influence/ The Grip) is the twelfth studio album by French recording artist Mylène Farmer, released on 25 November 2022 by Stuffed Monkey. The album was produced by Yoann Lemoine, AaRON and Moby, among others. Described as a return to the darker instrumentation of her earlier records, L'Emprise is a concept album which deals with a person who is under psychological manipulation and breaks free from it. In Farmer's words: "Who has not crossed the path of a so-called narcissistic pervert? Who has not one day been under the influence ("l'emprise") of such a person? Feminine or masculine, it doesn't matter. Ultrasensitive beings inhabited by doubts that gnaw at them are ideal prey. The important thing is to identify it and try to combat this grip. It's a theme that upsets me and often puts me in a black rage."
L'Emprise received positive reviews from music critics, with many noting it as a return to form for Farmer. Reviewers generally praised the album's cohesiveness and melancholic atmosphere, but some lamented the absence of radio-friendly songs.
Commercially, the album was successful, achieving the gold status in France (50,000 copies sold) within the first week of its release. The album also peaked at number one in France, Wallonia, and Switzerland, making it Farmer's first release to do so.
The album spawned four singles: "À tout jamais", "Rayon vert" featuring French duo AaRON, "Rallumer les étoiles, and the title track "L'Emprise." To further support the album, Farmer embarked on her Nevermore 2023 tour, her first tour since 2019 and the first one to play completely in stadiums.
Following the announcement of the Nevermore 2023 stadium tour, several news outlets speculated that a new studio album would be released to coincide with the tour. In the spring of 2022, media outlets detailed that Farmer was working on a new record with Woodkid and Moby as well as the bands Archive and AaRON. The singer had previously collaborated with Moby and Archive on the 2010 album Bleu noir.
According to Farmer, Lemoine approached her with the idea of collaborating after "she had long wanted to approach him." Lemoine sent her songs from his second studio album S16 in 2020 and the two struck up a friendship soon after. Work on the album commenced in 2021 and lasted a year. Lemoine would first compose the music and melody and send it to Farmer with his own voice, who would then write the lyrics. Meanwhile, Farmer and Moby worked on two songs remotely. The recording of the album took place at Studio Guillaume Tell in Paris, in the presence of a symphonic orchestra.
L'Emprise is a pop record which incorporates synth-pop, electropop, new wave and baroque pop influences. The instrumentation features predominately violins, synths and drums.
The album opens with "Invisibles," a symphonic ballad that was the first song composed for the album. Lyrically, it deals with religious love. The second song, lead single "À tout jamais" is a mid-tempo electropop song which "sounds like a call to get out of control." The lyrics are addressed to a narcissistic person. Jean Blaquière for Sud Ouest noted that the album's release coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, alluding that the lyrics, especially those of the lead single and "L'Emprise," deal with power dynamics in a relationship. The third song, "Que l'aube est belle," is a ballad that features ornamental orchestration, while its lyrics deal with Farmer's anxieties observing the world. Exploring the power dynamics of relationships and the darker aspects of human nature, the title track has been compared to lead single "À tout jamais," both sonically and lyrically. "Do You Know Who I Am" is a downtempo electropop song in which Farmer "recounts the harsh observation of having been too faded in favor of the other." The sixth song, "Rallumer les étoiles" is an up-tempo song featuring new wave instrumentation. Exploring themes that are characteristic of Farmer's work, the song deals with God, angels and love, and references Guillaume Apollinaire's play The Breasts of Tiresias. Critics noted its similarity to Eurythmics, Farmer's 2010 song "Bleu noir" and Moby's 1999 album Play.