Voir La Mer

Grand Corps Malade’s Voir la mer is his ninth studio album, released September 18, 2026, through Anouche Records. Across 16 tracks, the French spoken-word artist places his deep, conversational delivery against piano, guitars, strings, and rhythms drawing on pop, soul, funk, and disco. Written partly during a year spent in Montréal with his family, it approaches two decades of artistic life through questions of belonging, commitment, and the passage of time. Its central idea is perspective: stepping away from familiar surroundings becomes a way to recognize both everyday beauty and the tensions that distance cannot resolve. Live-played arrangements and melodic refrains give the record an organic warmth, while guest appearances from SDM, Mentissa, Styleto, and Cœur de pirate introduce contrasting voices without displacing the words at its center.

“J’en ai pas encore fini” opens with a declaration of continuing purpose, while “20 ans plus tard” questions whether the reasons for writing remain intact after years of touring and recording. “Traces,” with SDM, celebrates the suburbs that shaped both artists, and “Puissance 4” finds strength in the four-person unit of his family. Montréal emerges directly in “Une mélodie” and “L’hiver,” the latter a duet with Cœur de pirate that turns the Québec winter into a source of discovery rather than hardship. Elsewhere, “Les failles” celebrates human imperfection over funk-inflected accompaniment, while “Pas de fatalité” interrupts the prevailing warmth with a forceful response to racism and the normalization of far-right rhetoric. The closing title track gathers those emotional shifts into an image of breathing different air: escape is less an abandonment of responsibility than a chance to return to life with renewed attention.