At night complaining, by Robert Robert
DJ and electronic music composer Robert Robert (Arthur Gaumont-Marchand) has made a more than successful transition to writing with Silicone Villeray, dancing and light pop jewel. Directed and performed with his friend Hubert Lenoir, At night complaining is a perfect hook, but the 11 songs on the album are so many earworms that have brightened up our year.
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Silicone Villeray, by Robert Robert
Storm, by Laurence Anne
The second album of the mysterious Laurence Anne, Musivision, is a journey full of surprises in the abounding imagination of the gifted songwriter, poetic and ethereal, free and sweet. This Storm is above all caressing, and the singer’s shrill voice, a clear and assertive signature that stands out in a bland and down to earth world.
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Musivision, by Laurence Anne
Porcelain, from Good Child
The manga-song Porcelain, carried by the magnetic voice of singer Daphné Brissette, is one of the best tracks from Bon Enfant’s very good second album, Diorama. The supergroup nebula has also been very active this year, with the excellent solo projects of theatrical drummer Etienne Côté (LUMIÈRE) and bassist Alex Burger, who won the Félix for the country album with his album. Sweet Montérégie.
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Diorama, from Good Child
Breathe again, by Clara Luciani
With his second album Heart, the French Clara Luciani gives a masterful lesson in pop and variety. Funk, disco, sensual, contemporary, the singer-songwriter offers a bouquet of real hits, including this irresistible Breathe again, which makes you want to let yourself go without a future, like the protagonist of the song, on a dance floor.
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Heart, by Clara Luciani
Moteskano, by Laura Niquay
With her deep and rooted voice and her indie folk that is embellished with traditional songs, the singer-songwriter Atikamekw offered, with Waska Matisiwin, an album imbued with strength and light. Incantatory and powerful, the song Moteskano (The paths of our ancestors) is really striking, but, between softness and strength, the whole is above all a walk in a benevolent and welcoming path.
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Waska Matisiwin, by Laura Niquay
Jerrycan, by Edith Butler
What, an Edith Butler song on our year-end list? And how, and more. At almost 80 years old, the proud Acadian released a tonic album last summer, directly connected to her roots and carried by the ardor of director Lisa LeBlanc. An explosive and rock’n’roll encounter that is all contained in Jerrycan, whose energy is so strong that it is well worth any vitamin supplement.
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The tour of the great wood, by Edith Butler
Where we found ourselves, by Salomé Leclerc
A thousand works my heart is an album filled with textures and subtleties, probably one of the best of 2021, of all genres. Between appeasement and outbursts, the magnificent Where we found ourselves represents well this fourth opus all in freedom and breathing, where exploration never takes precedence over emotion and whose beating heart is palpable at every moment.
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A thousand works my heart, by Salomé Leclerc
The sum, by Vincent Vallières
“We are the sum, we get along, of love, my boy. ” In The sum, a sort of life assessment where the anecdote joins the universal that appears on his very successful eighth album All beauty is not lost, Vincent Vallières is at the peak of his songwriting art. His keen awareness of the passing of time makes us cry every time … but you have to have a heart of stone to resist such a concentration of emotion and sincerity.
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All beauty is not lost, by Vincent Vallières