Montreal’s Bibi Club Returns With Third Album Amaro
- The Night Temple
- Feb 26
- 2 min read
Montreal duo Bibi Club — Adèle Trottier-Rivard on vocals and keyboard, and Nicolas Basque on guitar — return this week with their third album, Amaro, released via Secret City Records on Thursday, February 27th, 2025. The record is an intimate exploration of grief, resilience, and love, using textures drawn from upbeat yet melancholic styles like coldwave to create a tension between angst, sorrow, and hope.
On Amaro, Bibi Club bravely confront the dark beasts that shadow us beneath the surface, inviting listeners to experience the therapeutic power of a fierce will to live. Following the death of two loved ones in the last year, the mantra ‘I want to love, I want to live’ resonates intensely in each melody. The songs trace a world of their own, moving from personal tragedy to universal reflections on love, nature, and community.
For Trottier-Rivard and Basque, the album is inseparable from their shared life. Partners in both art and romance, the couple navigates the grief of loss alongside the everyday challenges of touring, promoting music, and parenthood. Tracks like “Washing Machine” lay this rawness bare, while the album as a whole becomes a testament to enduring hardship together.
Amaro’s sound is a rich hybrid of avant-pop, electronic body music, dark wave, and neofolk, with occasional baroque flourishes including harpsichords, trumpets, and ritual chants to be learned by heart. The duo draws inspiration from their artistic encounters and past tours with Blonde Redhead and Circuit des Yeux, as well as collaborations with Calvin Johnson. They are supported by a community of collaborators, including saxophonist and activist Dimitri Milbrun (George Sand) and singer-songwriter Helena Deland (A Different Light), reinforcing the album’s balance of intimate expression and collective creation.
The name “Bibi Club” comes from the duo’s living room discotheque, where their “bibis”, loved ones, come to dance. With Amaro, that living room energy now expands into a wider world, blending sorrow and joy, reflection and movement, grief and survival, all in a sound uniquely their own.
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