Grand Prix is already the fourth CD of Vive La Fête, the project of dEUS bassist Danny Mommens and his girlfriend Els Pynoo. What once started as a joke has grown into 'serious business', Vive La Fête can be seen as one of the founders of the electroclash. In this case, it produces songs of a naive simplicity that has not been seen since the heyday of Sesame Street. Cold electro sounds from
… bands like Visage, The Cure and Kraftwerk echo imperturbably around it. Pynoo's French-speaking vocals, entirely after the example of her great idol Jane Birkin, make the whole sound like a children's party that got out of hand, where Vive La Fête provides the magician's support act. The lack of any kind of depth gets on the nerves after half an hour. (AD)more
