The young label Éditions Appaerent continues its fascinating momentum by offering a discovery: the first mini-album by Montreal trio Lash, led by singer-songwriter Frances Verdugo Lash and completed by composers Andrew Alain and Asaël Robitaille (Marie Davidson et l’Oeil nu ). The first of the four songs is titled Bernarda, a reference to a work, considered feminist, by the Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca. Lash transforms it into a kind of industrial metal reggaeton, never heard before. The electronic rhythm is more pronounced on malditawhich recovers some flamenco codes, and even more on the insidious Ingenua, his guitar, his rhythm, to be placed in the radius of contemporary pop like the Rosalía factory. Frances’ voice is just as seductive, but turns into a threat on the album’s closing title track, a collaboration with avant-garde composer Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, a gloomy atmosphere that extends the musical range of this exciting project.
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