![]() Their lyrics often unravel as if Ademo and Nos were sitting inside a confession booth, and offer little sense of pride in their background: “I don’t believe anyone lives without regrets,” says Ademo in À l’Ammoniaque. What’s unusual about PNL is that they refuse to glamorise the narrative, a tendency that continues on their fourth album. Lives such as theirs tend only to be visible in France thanks to music or football. The video illustrates the position in which PNL find themselves: the biggest band in the country, having grown up in the troubled neighbourhood of Les Tarterêts, south of Paris, where they made a living selling hash. It clocked up more than 12m views in two days and became the first independent French release to reach diamond status. ![]() In the vertigo-inducing clip, they turn the structure into a trap house, making it resemble the lifts at the bottom of the estates where drug dealers set up shop. After their last album, Dans la Légende, sold over 1m copies, they became the first band to film a music video atop the Eiffel Tower, for their new single Au DD.
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