Selective Listening | Corridor, Justin Timberlake and Joe Rocca

Every week, our music journalists add songs to the playlist of The Press on Spotify. Here are three recent titles that are in our selection.

Corridor, Die tomorrow

Inspiration doesn’t always come when you expect it. New proof: it’s by looking with your lover for the best life insurance to subscribe to – the most exciting couple’s activity, isn’t it? – what appeared to Jonathan Robert at the beginning of Die tomorrowfirst promise of Mimi, fourth album from Corridor, one of the best groups in town. With its orchestral hook and ethereal verses, this elegiac ode to life is reminiscent of the singer’s most recent (and excellent) album, who works solo under the name Jonathan Personne. To hear what happens next, you will have to not die before April 26.

Dominic Tardif, The Press

Justin Timberlake, Selfish

Last fall, Justin Timberlake and his NSYNC colleagues fueled rumors predicting a return of the popular boy band of the 1990s with the release of the piece Better Place For the movie Trolls 3. It is finally solo that JT begins the year 2024, when he launches Selfishfirst extract from his new album, Everything I Thought It Was, which will be released on March 15. This rhythmic ballad in which Justin Timberlake shows himself vulnerable while talking about love and jealousy retains the artist’s pop signature, but lacks a touch of originality. His fans, who have been waiting for new material for more than five years, will not hold it against him. The same cannot be said of his detractors, whose number seems to have skyrocketed since the release of his former friend Britney Spears’ autobiography.

Véronique Larocque, The Press

Joe Rocca, 21 grams

Founding member of Dead Obies, Joe Rocca announced his return last week with the release of two tracks: Focus And 21 grams. While the first manages to make us forget the cold of winter during its four minutes, the other is an introspective song which partly relates what has occupied the rapper and singer since the release of French Kiss, in 2017. A video shot in Beauce by Étienne Lacelle puts into images the sound ambiance created by Worry, JMF and Félix Petit as well as the felt text of Joe Rocca. His next album is expected by summer under the Bonsound label.

Paacal LeBlanc, The Press