It was a given, the guitar, for his first albums (the first in 2008!). The automatic acoustic friend of delicate songs. And then meetings took place at your fingertips, with keyboard players, arrangers, orchestrators, sometimes all of that in a single professional. So Amylie met a keyboard ace: with Alex McMahon, Catherine Major’s early accomplice, Amylie’s melodies and words found in turn the silky finery that suited them. were doing the best. To say the luminous, to dig into the dark, to dare the vast and the intimate until expressing the unspeakable, to “drag your doubts by force and seek a horizon for them”, as Amylie sings in The pathit required ambition and attention to detail, the evocative force of a McMahon: a path of access. Beauty comes at this price, electro daring here, repetitive notes there, surprising symphonic flights. We sometimes think of the synths of Funeral for a Friend by Elton John, but serving very sweet words. A universe to revisit.
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My light and my shadow
★★★ 1/2
Amylie, Blue Rug
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