Barrdo, the project of singer-songwriter Pierre Alexandre (PA), has this in common with his close collaborator David Bujold’s Fuudge: in both cases, rock serves to defy expectations. Less conceptual and psychedelic (but still a little) than The eternal return (2019), less trippy than the diptych equivocal vol. 1 and 2 (2022), this incredible day exudes a revealing simplicity: because the orchestration is reduced to its most effective elements and the author focuses on more classic song structures, we discover the performer for the first time. A voice of a touching, candid nature (amusing It’s correcton the work of a composer), even in its contradictory themes: laziness and incompetence on honkey tonk When the time comes in openness and, on the contrary, determination in People like meone of the most rock pieces of this album also crossed by touching folk impulses, on Land in sight, For example. The most accessible and effective of Barrdo’s albums.
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