Les Mercuriales were founded around the songs of novelist Jean Pierre Montal. Following in the French tradition of rock bands led by a writer (Dashiel Hedayat with Gong, Michel Houellebecq with AS Dragon), their music moves from country to New York rock, as if the Roxy Music had removed his to play in a Jean-Pierre Melville's movie. Their debut album, “Les Choses M'échappent”, owes as much to David Berman's Silver Jews as it does to Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack Up. In just six tracks - for forty minutes of music - the band starts with the essence Lou Reed's music before moving into drone, Latin jazz, spaghetti country and whatever else they feel like. Because, if architects build ruins, musicians give birth to specters.