We discovered Gab Bouchard almost three years ago with sad the same, a kind of fiery chronicle of a painful love affair. Good news, in this second album entitled Gravinesthe singer-songwriter originally from Saint-Prime, in Lac-Saint-Jean, has lost none of his vital energy or his hypersensitivity.
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The difference: they are now a little more channeled. No more broken voices and joyful excess, yet the emotion still passes, perhaps even more because it is contained.
Gravines starts at top speed with the hectic ones dump and Water hole. But we quickly move on to a slower, heavier pace, with subjects that are to match. Suicide, depression and despair hang over the heart of this album – It’s cool, Bye Bye, Remedy, Gravines – in which Gab Bouchard turns his gaze towards others, speaks to his friends who are in pain, talks to himself at the same time. And to all the people who are going through a bad patch. “There are other things to do than cry for love “, he sings in the touching Your shift is not over.
In this very “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” album, things can end very badly, yes, and we sometimes regret not having been able to change the course of events – Remedymore up-tempo, is also reminiscent of the poignant Get out of there, Roommates. But there is also a small touch of light at the end if you look at it properly.
It is this raw sincerity that we hear at every turn of Gravines, whose arrangements are signed Gab Bouchard, Mathieu Quenneville – who co-signs several pieces of music – and Olivier Langevin. An album that is perhaps wiser than its predecessor, but not smoother: the guitars weep, the melodies become encrusted, the lightness counterbalances the sadness of the words and, above all, above all, life overflows everywhere.
Pop rock
Gravines
Gab Bouchard
Bravo Music