Kicking The Habit “Self-Sabotage” (Hamper Studios / Ganache Records) Melancholic, tangy. Self-Sabotage , the first album by Kicking The Habit , is a dreampop chapel lit by candlelight with impeccable 90s references – The Breeders , Stereolab , Cranes –, a chapel that we were impatiently waiting to visit, so charmed were we at ADA by Your Song (which can be found on volume 63 of our compilations), a bittersweet pixisian ballad alternating between spoken word in French and caressing melody, interpreted in impeccable English by Renée Clancy : a guaranteed sound massage. Moreover, on the tribute dedicated to L'Avenir est Devant , the inaugural opus of the gloomy Mendelson , the Franco-American duo ( Marc-Antoine Sei being Renée's alter-ego) had delivered a completely luminous version of Au Début , which you will find on this Self-Sabotage with the misleading title, since sabotage will not be mentioned at all, except to (unintentionally) put out of play a large part of the French singers expressing themselves in the language of Kim Gordon. TO LEARN MORE CLICK HERE