The duo Corporation, formed by Racine (Julien Racine) and Keru Not Ever (Justin Leduc-Frenette), have been linking contemporary electronic music with the brute practices of electro-acoustic and plunderphonic music for several years. This - as patent in their respective works as in their debut album, Graffito (2019 [Genot Centre]) - results in hallucinatory music based on collage, superposition, repetition, synthesis and field-recording. It is composed as an acousmatic theater of sound artifacts without actors.

They are now returning with their sophomore album, Tableaux du doute, a work of sound investigations, traces, clues and alibis collected between 2021 and 2024. Drawing motifs and samples from the soundtracks of neo-noir films and detective movies of the 1990s and 2000s (Miami Vice, L.A. Confidential, Scoop, etc.) the pieces are composed as small tableaux, scenes of obsessive (dis)appearances and ordinary conspiracies, whose curtains hide underhand thefts and repeated treacheries. Every piece insists on and repeats the motives of doubt - before the revelation of a crime - whether felted by the lyrical eroticism of violins or the oblique coldness of FM synthesis.

The album can be listened as both a fanfiction-turned-mixtape and a musical études of investigative tropes - an empty object whose mystery is entirely produced by the artificial surface of seductive sounds.

releases November 14, 2025

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