Nothing Gold

This is Joakim's fourth album Nothing Gold -- probably his most song-oriented album to date. One of France's foremost electronic musicians, his first album Tiger Sushi was ambient electro-jazz, before he moved onto electronics with Fantômes (2003), and later Monsters & Silly Songs (2007). Nothing Gold borrows its title from the Robert Frost poem. The artist himself states: "...each song is about someone I don't want to be or become or about extreme behaviors and deviant habits -- with the exception of "Find A Way" -- like an exploration of the human dark sides, a way to exorcise the demons by becoming one of them inside a song ... I've taken the opposite path from most music producers today. I wanted to sound different. For years, I've been buying gear to build the studio of my dreams where I can achieve the sound I'm looking for (something between Conrad Plank, Motown and Daft Punk). It's simply not possible to get that sound with a laptop. I also love beautiful 'tools.' Things with a life of their own. You can interact with them."