With Révolution, set for release on November 21, 2025, Paris-based collective Le Comité Restreint offers not simply a double-album, but an immersive rite of passage. Across 13 tracks, the group confronts themes of solitude, upheaval, metamorphosis, and emotional rebirth. The result is a work that reads like a manifesto, sounds like a dream-state, and feels like a seismic shift in the listener’s inner landscape.

Founded by writer Sabine Bouyala and composer Léo Pouzoulet, and later joined by photographer Geneviève Gleize, artistic director Max Imbert, and writer Jérémy Mahieu, the collective operates at the intersection of music, poetry, and image. Their identity is deeply interdisciplinary, and Révolution reflects that. Every track is crafted with a cinematic sensibility: words become textures, soundscapes become metaphors, and silence becomes a character of its own. The project opens with “Morpheus”, a descent into shadow — a slow inhalation before the plunge. The title track, “Révolution,” expands the sonic universe with an urgency that’s emotional rather than militant. The group isn’t calling for revolt in the streets; they’re calling for revolt within the self. Tracks like “Sentinelle,” “Résistance,” and “Comme un déflagration” explore the tension between stillness and rupture, internal fear and external expression. Meanwhile, the two-part suite “Magnifique et perdu” is a highlight — a diptych of fragility and radiance that encapsulates the album’s core: transformation through vulnerability.

The back half of the album moves toward clarity. “Black Out” confronts disorientation, “Terrible périple” narrates the painful endurance of change, and “[Le Mat]” invokes the archetype of the Fool — leaping into the unknown with courage. “Laisse filer” and “Revenir” bring the project full circle, offering release and renewal. More than a collection of songs, Révolution is an artistic experience designed to unsettle, cleanse, and illuminate. It is a rare double-album that feels neither indulgent nor overextended: each track is a step in a ritual, and each ritual leads to a rebirth. Le Comité Restreint has crafted a project that is intimate, political, and profoundly human — a testament to art’s power to transform those who dare to listen deeply.

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