The ex-leader of the punk-garage band Babysitter has never lacked musical ambition, nor self-mockery, entitling his first solo album The Last Rock’n’Roll Record (2018). The Montrealer returns with a third album of pop-soul-rock songs seventies magnified by the play of a multitude of collaborators on guitars, brass, strings and synths. Of the Role of the Dice in the opening, we see the angel Bowie (Ziggy Stardust era), then, as pseudoscience Fiction reveals its grooves soul-funk, appears a touch of Temptations drinking from the psychedelic fountain (Cloud Nine, 1969, for example). Shimmering album which, in the lyrics (sometimes a little too opaque) of the songs, sees North reflect on our post-pandemic and turbo-technological society, like “a science fiction story that could happen today”. This album is thematically dense, spellbinding musically composed, with the singer-songwriter having a natural talent for blending styles.
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