Petite Noir has dubbed his music “noirwave,” and La Vie Est Belle, his upcoming new album from Domino, has been described as a borrowing the sound of Tears for Fears and Duran Duran along with Afrobeat and South African house. Read more about Petite Noir’s artistic project, his idea of noirwave, and what he might be doing to re-articulate the greater world’s view of African art via The Fader, and stream the new album before it hits stores September 11th.
Petite Noir’s New Album Now Streaming
Liz Wood
Liz Wood is a writer and critic living in Cape Cod. She was a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a member of the NBCC 2023 and 2024 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.