Cochon Ville

Sébastien Tellier made something with that title and I keep coming back to it, not because I fully understand what I’m hearing but because there’s something in it that feels deliberate and strange, like he knew exactly how absurd the project was and committed anyway. That’s the thing about Tellier—he’s always been willing to follow an idea to a place that makes no commercial sense, which is maybe why most people don’t know his work at all, and why the people who do care about it obsessively. The title itself is a joke, or maybe it isn’t, and that ambiguity is probably the whole point.