Five years after his previous album, The Riddlethe Quebec folk duo Coco Méliès offers Nothing Goes to Wastea very beautiful album on death and mourning, but which focuses on resilience and rebirth after the ordeal.
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There is a lot of assumed sadness in this gentle work. It’s always better to face reality, Francesca Como and David Méliès seem to have thought to themselves – the title of a song like Dear Eyes (The coffee is not worth getting up this morning), for example, already says everything. But it is nevertheless light that emanates from it, a form of hope in life and humanity.
The moving and nuanced voice of Francesca Como, the contrasting orchestrations of David Méliès, the keys of copper and violin which lead to the ascent towards hope, the overwhelming vocal harmonies, there emerges from the whole a certain appeasement, but also skin-deep emotions that reflect the upheavals that we have all experienced over the past two years.
The folk of Coco Mélies, slightly tinged with electronic music, is a good vehicle for this whirlwind of emotions, a kind of hymn to life as it is, with its ups and downs, losses and gains, but above all, friendship and love. Nothing Goes to Waste – nothing is lost, especially when you manage to transcend it through music.
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