Bibi Club

bizzarre
Feb 25
4 min read

Bibi Club share new single & video "George Sand" taken from their new album 'Amaro' out this week via Secret City Records.

Montreal duo Bibi Club (Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque) share new single “George Sand,” a track inspired by the radical 19th-century feminist writer’s forest manifesto – an ode to life and nature, featuring Dimitri Milbrun’s incendiary saxophone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJMJMYKRYM

This track comes three days before the release of their new album Amaro, out this Friday(Feb 27th) via Secret City Records. The band are also set to tour across the UK later this year with shows in Brighton, Bristol, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds.

Speaking about the single, Bibi Club explains:

“The writer George Sand was not only a strong, feminist and radical person, she was also a renowned botanist. This song is inspired by her manifesto for the survival of the Fontainebleau forest, an ode to life and nature, to the plants and trees that guide us.

A song full of thirst for life, about the force of nature and the therapeutic benefits it provides. Nico quickly programmed the bass and the 606 drum machine, then everything fell into place, like the song. It was evident that the song needed our friend, radical artist Dimitri Milbrun to add some incendiary saxophone. At the end of the song, the guitar and saxophone blend together to form a force that destroys everything in its path.”

The Polaris Music Prize shortlisted duo will bring Amaro to the stage on tour beginning in March 2026, with stops in Quebec City, Toronto (as part of the Wavelength Festival), across Ontario, as well as Paris (FR), London (UK), and more.

Amaro, Bibi Club invites us to brave the dark beasts that shadow us beneath the surface, and to devote ourselves to the healing power of a fierce will to live. It explores the liminal spectrum between the here and beyond, pointing to love, nature, and community as the unifying purpose. The songs draw a map of a world of its own, following the trajectory traced by the Bibis in recent years. Now out of the living room, we dance in a mental space overloaded with grief and fear in their rawest forms.

Following the death of two loved ones in the last year, the mantra “I want to love, I want to live” resonates intensely in each melody; if the heart is a place that never dies, we must reach it as quickly as possible.

Inspired by memorable artistic encounters, tours with Blonde Redhead and Circuit des Yeux, and a collaboration with Calvin Johnson, Bibi Club now reveals itself through avant-pop and electronic body music with elements of dark wave and neofolk, simultaneously borrowing from baroque sounds with harpsichords, trumpets, and ritual chants to be learned by heart. Supported by a caring community, including saxophonist and activist Dimitri Milbrun (George Sand) and singer-songwriter Helena Deland (A Different Light), Amaro allows Bibi Club to define itself in both intimate and collective terms.

Bibi Club is the musical project of Adèle Trottier-Rivard on vocals and keyboard, and Nicolas Basque on guitar. The pair named themselves “Bibi Club” for the discotheque in their living room, where their “bibis”—loved ones—come to dance.

With Feu de garde (2024), they expanded their sound with darker textures and luminous synths, earning them, once again, nominations at the ADISQ Awards and a nomination on the Polaris Music Prize short list, in addition to being celebrated as one of FNAC's albums of the month for May and receiving solid reviews from international media outlets.

Their hypnotic and spellbinding live performances have shone at SXSW, The Great Escape, Focus Wales, the MaMA Festival, Osheaga, as well as on stages in Brazil, Germany, and Canada. They have also opened for Blonde Redhead and Circuit des Yeux, among others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXFnG-ltODQ

Their debut album, Le soleil et la mer (2022), has made Bibi Club one of Quebec's most captivating bands. Acclaimed across Quebec and Europe, they earned the title of Most promising artist at the 2022 GAMIQ Awards, a nomination for Discovery of the Year at the ADISQ Awards, and a spot on the Polaris Music Prize long list. Le Devoir named it one of the best albums of the year, while Les Inrocks, Magic Magazine, Libération, and France Inter celebrated it in France. The duo then appeared in Les Inrocks' ranking of the best albums of the year, in Tsugi's ranking of the 10 revelations of the year and was supported by Steve Lamacq show on BBC6 Music.

The Polaris Music Prize shortlisted duo will bring “Washing Machine” and other new material to the stage on tour beginning in March 2026, with stops in Quebec City, Toronto (as part of the Wavelength Festival), across Ontario, as well as Paris (FR), London (UK), and more.