A key figure of the French Touch and a modern dandy with a thousand lives, Sébastien Tellier opens a new chapter in his career with “Refresh”, five years after his last album Domesticated, and his first release since signing with Because Music.
Twenty years after the release of “La Ritournelle” on Politics, a track that has become emblematic and was recently performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the artist reaffirms his visionary status. Composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Tellier has continuously navigated between pop, electronic, and folk, building a discography studded with classics (“Universe”, “L’Amour et la violence”, “Divine”, “Cochon Ville”…).
With ‘Refresh’, co-written with his long-time collaborator Amandine de la Richardière and elevated by the contributions of SebastiAn and Oscar Holter (The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry), Tellier delivers an ode to renewal. Balancing vocal sophistication with danceable energy, the track embodies that fertile tension between human and machine – a hallmark of his ever-evolving creativity.
For his return, Tellier entrusted his visual universe to Jean-Baptiste Mondino and artificial intelligence, who together composed imagery that is both offbeat and refined, reflecting a singular tension: will the artist with the legendary beard ever dare to part with it?
Sébastien Tellier explains:
“It’s a track about renewal, rebirth, failures, and the ceaseless cycle of starting over. It’s about changing internal processes at certain moments in life in order to keep moving forward, to reinvent oneself, to continue existing—like an animal shedding its skin, or like reprogramming computer software to survive inner chaos. And always rolling the dice again, over and over.”
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