Bon Enfant

“A phantasmagoric blend of ’70s musical influences… each performance is a journey through lush soundscapes” DORK

[on ‘Trompe L’Oeil’] - “So good we had to play it twice” Deb Grant (BBC Radio 6 Music)

“Punchy, Glam-flecked” The Line of Best Fit

“New Banger” NME

“The Best New Music” Crack Magazine

“Boundary-breaking” Still Listening

Out today (15th October) via Duprince Records, Montreal’s Bon Enfant share third studio album Demande spéciale (or ‘Special Request’) and announce new UK/EU tour dates for February 2025.

An integral cog in the ever-fertile alternative scene of Montreal, Bon Enfant’s eclectic self-styled “Québécois rock”  or simply, “rock québ '' serves up a menagerie of fluid, fluorescent delights. Bringing together psych-pop, glam, 70s disco, Japanese city-pop, desert rock, and more, under their ever-triumphant wing. Latest album ‘Demande spéciale’ continues the band’s unpredictable rock adventure, with its cherished themes of self-affirmation, love of music and just plain love, and stamped with Bon Enfant's trademark brightly-coloured sound

Following a recent trip to the UK in May - including performances at The Great Escape and Focus Wales, as well as a slew of UK Headline Dates - Bon Enfant in 2024 have also garnered widespread press coverage from the likes of The Line of Best Fit, Our Culture, NME, Crack, DORK Rough Trade and Still Listening, in addition to radio backing from BBC Radio 6Music (Deb Grant, Amy Lamé) and John Kennedy (Radio X). 

To mark the album’s release, the band also release new single ‘Passion rock’, a lysergic dose of tribalistic Goat-esque psychedelia. Offering more on the song, the band say:

"One of the bonuses of Bon Enfant is that they're such a multi-faceted band that, geometrically, they're at least a D20 (fantastic!). Here they are again, in their invigorating new rock vector, advancing another success from a few unheard-of elements to a result that immediately sounds like Bon Enfant: on a track developed from a rhythm machine (!), Daphné Brissette goes through verses in sprechgesang (spoken word) before intoning one of the group's trademark unifying refrains. In a tone at once detached, sensual and “badass”, she approaches the musician's craft as a pagan sacrifice, dying - metaphorically or not so much - on stage to light “bonfires” for fans and audiences. The passion to give her all for her music, here interpreted for you.”

Continuing their permeable rock adventure, Bon Enfant return from an enviable run of local and international tours to present Demande spéciale, their 3rd album. A charming title - we agree - as much as it is evocative and ad hoc: a special request is a pleasure that makes us forget our worries to immerse ourselves in the moment; it comes from oneself, an extraordinary demonstration of one's tastes, desires and personality. It also refers to the musical diversity of this album - where a lot of nostalgic and new references are absorbed by the band's plural personality to generate something that is at once singular, contemporary, coherent and inviting. It's about the work of the artist, the ability to permute the negative into the positive through creation, city life, the love of music and love itself. 

Recorded by Samuel Gemme, Warren C. Spicer and Guillaume Chiasson, mixed by the latter and produced by Emmanuel Éthier, Demande spéciale also benefits from contributions from Jean-Étienne Collin-Marcoux, Jérôme Dupuis-Cloutier and Naomie Delorimier. It's an album that feels good, that sounds resolutely like Bon Enfant (idem) - and listening to it is like granting yourself a special request.