Cachemire

Presented by Rage Tour For 10 years, Cachemire has been shaking up the French rock scene. For 10 years, Cachemire has been rattling our bones with corrosive guitars, slamming drums, and

Presented by Rage Tour

For 10 years, Cachemire has been shaking up the French rock scene. For 10 years, Cachemire has been rattling our bones with corrosive guitars, slamming drums, and caustic lyrics. Suffit Juste d’Une Seconde is no exception. On this new album, aficionados will delight in rediscovering the “Cachemirian fibre” woven since Photochope-Moi, which electrifies the hair and coats the skin with a film of sweat from head-banging and foot-tapping to the beat. But time has the virtue of allowing for a patina. Cachemire’s fur has, over a decade, become a leather that has refined itself from track to track. The lyrics are still as biting, clear, and direct, pointing out our flaws, our absurdities, our clumsiness, without ever lecturing. And the band doesn’t disavow any of its abrasive punk—even metal—escapades, such as those in Dernier Essai. But 2025 undoubtedly marks a return to foundations. To roots. To the soil. To the band’s nourishing earth. Rock. Pure. Simple. Punchy. The sound of this latest album is full and dense. The guitar riffs are there and very present. The keyboards too. The strings and organs, no doubt. The 13 short melodic films are effective. Very effective. They are tight, powerful, and unambiguous. The endings are clean, sharp. It’s cut with a billhook. Cut for the stage. Cut from roc(k).Suffit juste d’une seconde doesn’t fall apart. It doesn’t get lost in complexity or even complication. And this tanning is unique. This is evidenced by the extensive work on the backing vocals and FredBastar’s voice. Always tinged with that characteristic peppercorn stuck in the trachea, it breaks free from the musical coating in a “Adam” or a “Seul” to speak to us face-to-face and tell us: “Listen carefully. It’s important.”

There is hope in the lyrics. We live better in “2080” than in 2020. There is nostalgi