Many of the tracks on Réévolution bear echoes of former hits, Vis à vis recalling the Daho classic Pop Satori and the bass-drums combination on Retour à toi tapping into the groovy soul vein of Paris Ailleurs. As for the raunchy guitar feedback on Le Jour et la nuit, Daho connoisseurs cannot help but make comparisons with certain passages of Pour nos vies martiennes. One thing's for sure and that's that consummate pop ditties such as Retour à toi, Jack au mois d'avril and L'Orage au talisman all look set to become Daho classics and follow in the chart-topping footsteps of Week-end à Rome, Bleu comme toi and Comme un igloo.

Les Liens d'Eros, a song on which Daho teams up with British 60s icon Marianne Faithfull, marks a distinct change of atmosphere. Faithfull excels at husky, sensually-charged vocals and these really come into their own here as she reads a series of extracts from Venus in Furs (a book written by her notorious great-uncle Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch). Musically, Daho's obsessions come full circle on this track, too, as the Rennes pop king has always been a huge fan of Velvet Underground (inimitable creators of their own Venus in Furs). "Are the bonds of Eros more binding than those of the heart? Are the bonds of Eros more binding than those of the blood?" muses Faithfull, as she warms to her erotic theme. And appropriately so, for love in all its permutations – passion, infidelity, jealousy and carnal desire – runs as an unstoppable undercurrent throughout the entire album. It is as if Daho, the 80s dandy, has been freed from the tyranny of appearance and dared to reveal his innermost passions and emotions at last.

There will be some critics who reproach Daho for his lack of musical audacity on Réévolution, complaining of a sense of déjà entendu. Others might have preferred to find a follow-on from Eden, an album which experimented with more complex artistic choices than the simple "live" sound in evidence here. In fact, Réévolution finds Daho harking back to the white soul/French pop cross-roads he reached over ten years ago following the release of Paris Ailleurs. Since then the French pop king has benefited from collaborations with the likes of Jacno, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fontaine, Guesh Patti, St Etienne, Astrud Gilberto and Jane Birkin. These 'encounters' have enriched Daho, both on a musical and artistic level, and the result is that the twelve finely-honed tracks on Réévolution all boast what can now be defined as Daho's smooth signature style.