23/07/2026
NEW ⚡️If you're looking for a fresh Post-Punk/New Wave with a soul ▲ The French project Contre Jour is for you & back after 10 years of silence with 2 new tracks.
Smart reflection about a (new) world marked by the return of violence, intolerance and widespread stupidity, which we unfortunately see happening both at the geopolitical level and in our daily lives.
A NEW Album is in preparation for late 2k26 or early 2k27.
YOU CAN STILL READ OUR REVIEW OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM here :
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE OF THE BAND :
" THIS NEW WORLD was born from a feeling that has become increasingly difficult to ignore: the feeling that our era is slowly reconnecting with ideas we believed had long been left behind. As though intolerance, the rejection of others, unapologetic violence, contempt for knowledge, the appeal of simplistic truths, and the preference for beliefs over facts were quietly reclaiming a central place in public discourse. As though some of history's most painful lessons were fading before our eyes, without anyone seeming truly alarmed by it.
THIS NEW WORLD expresses that unease through a deliberately simple image: words becoming so violent that they begin to resemble weapons. Conversations that no longer seek to understand, or even to encourage reflection, but simply to hurt. When talking is no longer enough. THIS NEW WORLD is not an invitation to escape the world, but to step back from it, refusing to let ourselves be consumed by this atmosphere. Instead, it is an invitation to preserve our freedom, our integrity, and our critical thinking. In short, to remain deeply human, even when everything around us seems to encourage the opposite.
Last week, Manu, the band's guitarist, came across an elderly lady wearing a T-shirt that simply read: "The best memories come from the craziest ideas." It may sound almost too simple at first, yet it couldn't have been more fitting.
Every archive featured in this video is genuine. They all come from our teenage years, a time when we spent our days chasing the most ridiculous ideas and filming every wonderfully liberating piece of nonsense we could think of, convinced that the future would inevitably become freer, more open, and brighter than the world we knew back then. It was precisely in that wildly optimistic and delightfully unconventional environment that our music was born.
We deliberately chose to confront those memories, memories that still make us laugh until we cry today, with the darkness of the song. The archive footage was reworked through an almost entirely analogue process: VHS tapes, VCRs, CRT televisions, optical manipulations... The present-day footage of the band was then enhanced using video projection and extensive experimentation with an analogue oscilloscope, even to the point of feeding a video signal back into it, a completely new process for us that proved to be every bit as exciting as it was enjoyable.
Beyond its aesthetic, this approach reflects what defines our visual identity: a band that loves to tinker, experiment, remain independent, build things by hand, and embrace all the imperfections that, to us, give artistic creation its true beauty. These values matter more than ever to CONTRE JOUR, especially at a time when artificial intelligence continues to cheapen art, gradually stripping one of humanity's most precious forms of expression of its very substance.
Ultimately, the contrasts throughout this video tell a simple story: remembering where we come from helps us understand what we are in the process of losing.
Progress is never a straight line. It can move backwards too. And perhaps it is precisely in those moments that we realise growing older is not about becoming someone else, but finally understanding why that part of ourselves was always worth preserving.
"Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."
David Bowie
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