A certain lightness. A bouncy phrasing, pleasantly impulsive, but often delivered at overspeed. The kind of alternative folk proposed by Sandrine St-Laurent on this first real album (after a dip in 2021) seems to slip on the surface of words, without dwelling on them, on purpose to divert attention. Where a Coeur de pirate mumbled the phonemes to bury the meaning there, one would similarly believe that the young Sherbrooke resident decided not to lengthen the notes to better conceal the words. Yet she has – you have to read the lyrics to find out – the heartbreaking verb, difficult loves, deep hopes. In half of you, despite its “silk arms” and “armrest shoulders”, the other remains out of reach. Not dismantled, she leans on the women who surround her in The ones that I know, speaks for his generation of “troublemakers” to those who do not listen. Important, all that. Worthy to be heard. Let’s bring back Boileau: “What we conceive well is clearly stated…”
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