| Orelsan et Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Casseurs Flowters |
| Cover: | CasseursFlowters-Album.jpg |
| Recorded: | December 2012–October 2013[1] |
| Length: | 66:38 |
| Language: | French |
| Chronology: | Casseurs Flowters |
| Prev Title: | Fantasy : Episode 1 |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Comment c'est loin |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
Orelsan et Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters is the debut studio album by Casseurs Flowters, a French hip hop duo consisting of rappers Orelsan and Gringe. It was released on 15 November 2013 by 7th Magnitude and Wagram Music in France and on 18 November 2013 on iTunes.[2] [3]
Entering the French Albums Chart at number 8 in its first week, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, and has sold more than 100,000 copies in France to date.[4]
After the release of their first mixtape Fantasy : Episode 1 in 2004, Gringe and Orelsan embarked on solo careers before coming together again to record their debut studio album. Gringe released Fantasy Mixtape in 2009, while Orelsan's two studio albums Perdu d'avance and Le chant des sirènes were met with huge success. The former was nominated for a Prix Constantin,[5] [6] while the latter won him the Urban Music Album of the Year award at the 2012 Victoires de la Musique,[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] with songs from the album and Orelsan himself garnering several more accolades and nominations in the process. The two rappers had done the songs "Entre bien et mal" from Perdu d'avance and "Ils sont cools" from Le chant des sirènes, as well as being featured on "C'est beau de rêver" by Taipan from his album Dans le circuit among others before collectively working on their new studio album and releasing tracks as Casseurs Flowters.
Despite the success of his first two studio albums, Orelsan kept his feet on the ground and never forgot, according to Les Inrocks, the "pact he signed" with his accomplice Gringe. In an interview, Orelsan explains: "In the beginning, we didn't really know what [songwriting] would give, we wrote. [...] and then we told ourselves that we had to find an idea to structure the thing." Waking up at 3:00 in the afternoon to write and spending the night going out before getting back home to sleep at 6:00 in the morning became their daily routine.
This kind of life the two rappers found themselves living became the subject of the album, whose story is told like a film in its totality. They explain that they chose to explore nightclubs for concerts in the company of some friends. Orelsan explains: "We do a bit of anything, we dance in the crowd, which smells like Red Bull and old whiskey and coke. We enjoy ourselves, we take pleasure and later we'll see."[12]
Orelsan et Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters has produced 1 single: