Des Visages des Figures (Faces of Figures) is an album by French rock band Noir Désir.
The group received five Victoires de la Musique award nominations in 2001, winning both Best Rock Album of the Year for Des Visages des Figures and Music Video of the Year for "Le vent nous portera."
During that event, Bertrand Cantat read out a speech on behalf of the band, addressed to Jean-Marie Messier, then CEO of Vivendi, the group that had recently acquired Noir Désir's record company, Universal, and (according to him) used the band's name and reputation to somehow cover up his disfigurement of French culture for the sake of profit, ending with the phrase "and if we are embarked on the same planet, we definitely are not from the same world", sparking numerous commentaries in the media.
Manu Chao plays the guitar in "Le vent nous portera", among numerous musicians participating in the album.
All tracks by Noir Désir Produced by Nick Sansano, Noir Désir, Jean Lamoot, and Akosh Szelevényi.