Nine albums, thirty years of music and a phenomenal love affair with France.
Neil Hannon, demiurge of The Divine Comedy and modest Northern Irishman, rose to the level of the greatest artisans in the history of pop, lining up the great records with regularity.
An avowed disciple of Scott Walker, this paradoxical and atypical crooner is celebrating his three decades of activity with a plethora of box set.
There are the masterpieces Casanova or Absent Friends.
And also the orchestrations of his
Short Album About Lov
e, which saw him flirt with classical arrangements.
The greatest curiosity is the first steps of this pastor's son, at the dawn of the 1990s.
"Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time" (PIAS).
PIAS
In its initial version, The Divine Comedy was a fairly common pop group.
Neil Hannon will have to get rid of the cumbersome rags of a grunge era to assert himself.
In strict costume, on rope rugs, he invented a style that proved to be timeless.
France was the first to succumb to the first two albums:
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