

It's hard to pin down Jean LeLoup—the Québécois Bowie acolyte is a master of reinvention, assuming numerous artistic personae (Dead Wolf; Massoud Al-Rachid) and recalibrating his signature sound with each shift. His influence can be heard in the glammy riffs and envelope-pushing imagery of the iconoclastic artists who followed his lead: lusty, sparky alt-rock en français, with swagger to spare.