Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul share new remix of ‘Cliché’ by Soulwax
“a riveting debut from two artists whose music pokes you in the side as often as it makes you move.” – Pitchfork
“joyous musical playfulness and razor-sharp lyrical wit.”
– DIY ★★★★
“‘Topical Dancer’ is a triumphant middle finger to the people that need to see it the most.”
– NME ★★★★
“[Topical Dancer] establishes Adigéry and Pupul as a force to be reckoned with.”
– The Skinny ★★★★★
LISTEN to Cliché
Following their momentous performance on Later with Jools Holland, Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner Bolis Pupul have today unveiled a Soulwax remix of ‘Cliché’. A standout track from their critically acclaimed debut album Topical Dancer, it’s the first ever Soulwax remix released on DEEWEE and originally premiered in June during the 2manydjs live show at Primavera. Listen to the record in full HERE and check out the Soulwax remix HERE.
DEEWEE label heads Soulwax turn in a gloriously euphoric flip of ‘Cliché’, ratcheting up the energy to their trademark tempo in a monstrous, synth-heavy four to the floor rework. The original track (full title: ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’), is an accumulation of all the cliché lyrics Charlotte and Bolis have heard over the years and a wink to one off the most copied sentences in art, originally by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte.
Cultural appropriation and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte and Bolis have ripped up the rulebook with their debut record. Featuring standout singles ‘Blenda’, ‘HAHA’ and ‘Thank You’, Topical Dancer – which cemented Charlotte and Bolis as a duo under both their names for the first time and was co-written and co-produced by today’s remixers, Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.”
The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink. With widespread critical acclaim from the likes of BBC 6 Music, Apple Music, The Guardian, The Observer, NME (included in their best albums of 2022 so far), Crack, Evening Standard, Pitchfork, The Independent, DIY, The Vinyl Factory, Loud & Quiet + many more, Topical Dancer is a deliciously mischievous dance record, and an outstanding debut LP from Belgium’s brightest musical talent.
LISTEN to ‘Cliché (Soulwax Remix)’
LISTEN to Topical Dancer
WATCH ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’
WATCH/LISTEN to ‘HAHA’