We can say that Hay Babies Julie Aubé has more ideas: five years after her first solo album entitled Joy of livingthe Acadian singer-songwriter is back with Satisfaction, an invigorating, joyful and light album that perfectly bears its name. Which doesn’t mean it lacks depth, though: there’s a real bias here for the bright side and the simple pleasures of life that aren’t trivial.
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Julie Aubé has a daily poetry of her own: “You put ice cream / in your smoothies / you rhyme health with calories”, she sings in The moon of my planet, nice tribute to friendship. And there is a whole string of little pearls of this kind in his 11 songs, a perfect mix of humor, anecdotes and observations on the vagaries of life. “It’s not because you were abandoned/that you couldn’t give anything”, she says in the benevolent Second handwhich evokes as much “cups of coffee in retirement” as those “who just ask for a place to sleep”.
Directed by Mike Trask, Satisfaction distills a playful and energetic country-rock, full of sparkling guitars, sometimes even a little dirty. There are pretty love songs (Foreign), a rock and sexy tribute to the somewhat crooked handsome guy (Beautiful enough it’s criminal), a melancholy assumed but not heavy for two pennies in front of the passing time (Change the wrong place), and an overall wrap that pulls up and feels good. An album full of charm, interpreted with poignancy and intensity by a singer who has as much canine as a loving gaze on the world.
country rock
Satisfaction
Julie Aube
Simone Records