The Montreal trio Embo/phlébite (Raphaël Léveillé with a hollow and calm voice as well as on guitar, Agathe Dupéré on bass and Gabriel Lapierre on drums) offers a coda, more than a sequel, to their first album, The false links, released on his own in November 2020. A bridge, we hope, that will lead him to the next album: this collection of five new songs sparkles with the same poetry carried by these unexpected orchestrations, also carrying the singular sound signature of its director, Navet Confit, which makes these little pearls of “anti-songs” shine with a thousand and one bizarre little noises. It tastes like punk art on the awesome Owlwith its sharp guitars, electro on Every yearmore melancholic than pop, experimental folk on Excuse me I don’t understandand again on the touching Cry on the job, in conclusion. Anti-song, right? Visionary song, rather, with a sensitivity all the more effective as it is transmitted by words that sometimes seem to come from a conversation between friends.
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