Nuits Blanches Hélas Format:Vinyl LP as a portal to collective taken those 7 out as a portal to collective mourning ” the songs celebrate (and rail against) the absurdities of getting older Pop music from France on either side of the punk explosion has never shy’d away from electronic elements and on Nuits Blanche’s Helás LP there is plenty to remind us of that legacy Helás has the heft and the violence of boots treading across concrete en masse but within that is the lightness and the style of a dark smokey room filled with people wearing dark glasses and considering the inevitability of the pointlessness of existence…off the dance floor anyway