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God is among us. Not that, these last years, Nicolas Dieu has been absent. Until now, we knew him under the cap, and behind the microphone, of Mister Cover. A group started in 2002, with friends who are great musicians, that he let grow at his own pace, until filling the Ancienne Belgique and Forest National several times, and that still has great dates ahead of it.\And then, on a beautiful eighth day and as one God can sometimes hide another, Nicolas came back to us with an unusual project called, in all simplicity, Oh My God. A new musical identity, radically different from that of Mister Cover, as much as fiercely introspective, and which, following an EP of the same name, brings us this first album entitled Les Meilleures Versions De Nous-Mêmes ».\rnA better version of Nicolas Dieu ? Or, in any case, an avatar that leaves his image of rugby player/entertainer in the checkroom and brings to light a shadowy side that we didn't know he had. An intimate, demanding self, and an artist specially gifted to tell his story with the right words, which immediately find their way into us.\This album covers a dozen songs that, for some of them, the 43-year-old Hennuyer had been carrying inside him for years, dreaming of sharing them one day but without daring to believe it. The texts are from his pen because, on this very personal project, he didn't imagine to put the words of someone else. For the melodies, it is according to: airs which squatted for a long time his ears but also, collaborations always welcome.\rnDe these songs all inédites is revealed an energy which is not less. As if, at the studio tour, the man had met himself, as if he had covered all the potential of these titles. An intimate work whose benefits he praises and which, according to him, is worth 10 years of psychoanalysis. From "Je n’aime que toi" (I only love you), which evokes the feeling of love and the happiness of succumbing to it, to "La Sainte Colère" (Holy Colony), which speaks of healthy indignation and legitimacy. Nicolas God knows it well: "One only resents what one loves". This is why his universe as well as his way of telling it to us show a rare coherence, a salutary interest, which delights us again and again. Until the end of an album that is anything but monochrome and that cannot leave one indifferent.