Le "couchant" is the french translation of "sunset". In a more colourful and graphic way in french than in english, as in a direct word-by-word translation it would rather mean something like "sun going to bed" or "sun going to sleep". It is not sure than Flo had the title of the album in mind while making the tracks. In fact, it was only one of the tracks title and it ended as the album name. Not that the easy, overused "sunset" theme has so much to do with the tracks. Anyone playing his favorite tracks in front of an oranged-blue sunset might have a different reaction than in another context. Just like anyone playing his favorite tracks with a glass of wine. That being said, sunset might be slightly more than an emotion-enhancer. There is so much in the collective unconscious which is related to setting sun. We could mention that Florian lives in south of France, near Arles, where Van Gogh has painted most of his masterpieces but we'd be straying away from the mark since Florian's vast range of influences extend from Chicago and Detroit house masters to Jazz, disco and soul. Music that is made in places where sunsets might look a little different than in south of France. So, much more than the look of sunset or it's colors (might they be translated into notes and chords) we might have to focus on when does sunset happen. It happens at that very special moment between night and day, that is true for every places in the world even if it's at six pm here and ten pm there. Just like full moon or heavy rain, which certainly have a huge impact on the way we think, feel, and so to the way we hear music as well. Some focus much more easily during the night, some during the day. Some like to listen music very late at night, some would rather make a break of music when night falls to read some books. We are not saying that these tracks would only sound good at a particular moment of the day, of course that wouldn't make much sense. But while writing a few words about a release, it is a fair game to push the theme a little bit. If the title influenced the feeling while listening the music or does the feeling while listening the music influenced the title? Hard to say, but what remains certain is that the whole album, and most definitely a few tracks like "Le Cpu est devenu fou", "The Deep Reset" or "Gruv For U" are all flirting with the same sunset-like flavoured atmosphere, all being a sort of junction of soulful-house music, tech-house and micro-house. And while other tracks are hanging in a more familiar area, these few ones and especially "Le Cpu est devenu fou" are a very clever careful blend, a fine tuned combination of most basic drums where the lead role is left to fairy high frequencies fx and a neverending loop. How not to think about Strictly Rhythm classic "The Mole People - Break Night" while playing "The Deep Reset"? How not to recall a bit of Gemini's trickiest grooves while playing "T'as dead ça chacal" or "Gruv For U"? There is a bit of this, a bit of that yet something hard to tell, a non-transparent mid water vibe, reminding a little bit Dj Koze's or even Bradock's and Ark's style, yet definitely not sounding like any of them. This skilful mixture of almost harrassing vocals taken out of their original context, of uplifting yet not so uplifting synths, and sometimes off-beat cavalcade of bass and drums can take a track that would usually be an ideal beach festival filler to an almost scary and odd groovy sorcery. Hard to define for real! But how not to be fascinated by how Florian goes from well-known and free of rights acapellas to slimy and shifting driving chords or epic, movie soundtracks like tracks that "September Music" is, for example? All this, and some other things make all these new Muller's tracks much more than club weapons or a good copy of Moodymann's stuff. "Le couchant" is much more than that, it is the musical illustration of all possible sunsets, may it be a wildfire-like sunset in south of France, a burning pack of clouds and light floating over a beach in Ibiza back in the nineties, a rather shy sunset with bit of rain on top of fuming Detroit car factories, a freezing sunset watched from a metro in the suburbs of Chicago. All tone colours of sunsets, wherever this sunset might be, all packed within these few tracks. Musicwise, we had said that Florian's previous album on Goldmin "Leaving the Party" tracks' greatness was lying in their a bit far-fetched side, using adjectives like "unconventional", "rare". We said that their charm was in part due to the daring assemblages of sounds and some other things. Well, we say it again for "Le Couchant", except that on this one, we should add that each track sounds like it had always existed, like it had to be done, like a true catchy-enough house classic. And if there is weirdness, it's more hardly hearble, more hidden and due to different factors but the search of weirdness. All happens accidentally and the dark-uplifting house asylum goes on. In french, we could say that all these new tracks "ne sont pas tirées par les cheveux" and that they sound like "évidence" but this translation is not so easy to do so maybe we could translate as "catchy", "highly effective" for now. Here is another daring, hardworking artist, pushing things further year after year and that's why if we were dythirambic about 2019's Lp Leaving the Party, we can only be even more enthusiastic about this one, a piece of beauty with more than one hit. A whole "best-of" album seeing the french producer bringing "copies" (which are definitely not copies), that are often better than the original and where the student seems to have surpassed his teachers more than one time.