Decidedly, disco is fashionable among French singers. After Clara Luciani at the beginning of the summer, here is Juliette Armanet too, and delivers an entertaining album, dancing and shining like a mirror ball.
With his first album, Girlfriend, Launched four years ago, Juliette Armanet quickly rose to star status in France, with 200,000 albums sold and the Victoire de la Révélation of the year in 2018. It was therefore crowned with great expectations that she launched this new album titled Burn the fire, which does not disappoint for a second.
The singer-songwriter, who accompanies herself on the piano, has often been compared to Véronique Samson. The reference is still there, but Juliette Armanet is casting a much wider net here and does not hide her influences, whether in Vertigo, in duet with the director SebastiAn, who recalls the tandem Michel Berger / France Gall, Save my life, a sort of I Will Survive French, or the title song Burn the fire, directly inspired by the Light the fire by Johnny Hallyday, less rock but just as lyrical.
With titles like Whatever, You play me Where Boom Boom Baby, disco is certainly the common thread of this very orchestral production, with an irresistible groove and sumptuous arrangements of strings and choirs. But there is also a lot of softness and slowness (Red on the cheeks, superb piano-voice ballad) in this sensual, passionate and loving album, while the flamboyant era of French variety in the 1970s is never far away.
Surrounded by the cream of directors SebastiAn (Daft Punk, Frank Ocean, Charlotte Gainsbourg), Julien Delfaud (Sébastien Teillier), Yuksek (Lykke Li, Lana Del Rey), Victor Le Masne (Gaspard Augé) as well as Marlon B, who was already on her first album, Juliette Armanet offers 13 songs with catchy choruses and solid melodies, carried by her airy and perfectly correct voice, which she pushes to impressive heights. Light and glowing.
Pop
Burn the fire
Juliette Armanet
Universal