Cabadzi (FR)

After their unexpected collaboration with filmmaker Bertrand Blier, the duo CABADZI returns this year with their fourth album: BURRHUS.

The title refers to a well-known concept in behavioral psychology: Skinner’s theory, developed by Professor Burrhus Frederic Skinner in the 1930s in his Harvard laboratory.

Across 16 tracks, BURRHUS marks CABADZI’s return to a rap-oriented writing style – both dark and comedic – and tells the story of our addiction to social networks, to self-presentation, to the narration of ourselves in the virtual world that has become indispensable to real life.

The flow is sharper, more contemporary, with a tone both smiling and disillusioned, fully brought to life through music with strong Hip-Hop influences – modern yet stripped-down.

As a nod to the album’s theme, CABADZI turns BURRHUS into a brand, a kind of “worldwide company” capable of anything for the happiness of all, and builds across all visual media a universe halfway between Black Mirror and Brave New World.