Warning: album for meditation. This is indeed what Alanis Morissette tried to accomplish: during the pandemic, she filled two discs, good for her. The result ? Neo-new age for new not-so-new times. Meditation support? The vocalizations in the background with a lot of echo, instrumentation over instrumentation, strata of electronic self-sufficiency. In a word: failure. It’s not meditative, it’s the clumsy construction of a wall of sound that threatens to collapse and ends up crushing us. Boring and soporific, to sum up, much better than the keywords: Light, Heart, Explore, Space, Purification, Restore and company. Catch-all words, yes. Indulgence of an artist who is coming to Quebec (featured on the Plains, July 15) we repeat her corrosive and liberating refrains, ironic, You Oughta Know, YouLearn : in truth, we should have known it since 1995, and we learned nothing at all. Isn’t that ironic?
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