Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Yasmine Ixe and Richard Ryan Wenger (Richard Lamb) release their début EP »Premier Caprice« under the name Library L’Amour. This is no coincidence: With the release, the experimental synth-pop duo finally give their three-and-a-half-year relationship a musical form. And so the 4-track EP invites you to listen to a progression that most of us have gone through at one time or another – from first meeting each other to dreaming together. Between awkwardness and yearning, Yasmine Ixe whispers into mysterious soundscapes and lets the unspoken speak through the voids. The first two tracks make you feel more like you’ve stepped back into an episode of »Twin Peaks« than into ecstatic infatuation: Yasmine Ixe and Richard Ryan Wenger meander mysteriously through »Lemonade« and »Premiere Caprice« until things finally unravel a little in »De délites en délires«. Yet the delirium exhausts itself in one track before retreating back into a dark murmur in »Sous-entendu«. In the end, the four tracks lose themselves in their shared mystery, leaving a sense of something that neither excites nor really engages. The fact that you are strangely ravenous afterwards and would prefer to bury yourself between the sounds of Portishead and Air suggests that »Premiere Caprice« doesn’t quite fill you up. Still, the EP remains a familiar echo, that only occasionally loses itself between a couple of synths.
Yukimi
For You
Ninja Tune