JE T’AIME: for these few letters, some live, some go mad, but above all, many die. Live until you go mad, live until you die – that’s the credo of the cold-wave trio whose spirited spleen sprang from the muggy basements of Parisian nightlife in 2018. While the classic post-punk and new wave influences are obviously there, the driving rain that falls on these three anti-heroes is tinged with the flashing colors of neon lights and their artificial heat. JE T’AIME stirs up your guts as much as your behinds, and blows the codes with a jubilant, touching snarl.
After a self-titled debut album (2019, Manic Depression/Icy Cold), the band signed the diptych PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE in 2022, choosing Valentine’s Day and All Souls’ Day to release both parts. In the few years of its existence, JE T’AIME has rocked audiences at Belgium’s W-Fest,
Poland’s Castle Party, England’s Infest Festival, Portugal’s Extramuralhas and Germany’s Wave Gotik Treffen… If Europe has to learn a few French words, it might as well be “JE T’AIME”.
In 2024, JE T’AIME is six years old. Their new album, Useless Boy, is an expressionist cry, a sad party where the melancholic thrill is always hidden behind illusory comforts. More than ever, it’s a flight into the future, a rejection of the dreary conventions of the real world. JE T’AIME locks itself away in its own intimate universe to avoid confronting dull, tasteless normality. Sorrows are sublimated by the all-consuming energy of a trio for whom maturing rhymes with dying, skilfully juggling nostalgia and modernity.

Tracks (same 10 tracks on the CD):
A1 Nightcrawler
A2 Unbroken Sleep
A3 When Dreams cease
A4 Useless Boy
A5 Dead Leaves
B1 Whispers (Lost in the Echoes)
B2 Silent Monsters
B3 Wrong Fold
B4 Letter from Hell
B5 Stories not told