Lisa LeBlanc no longer hides behind Belinda’s wig, but she keeps in chic disco all the energy of her bingo-loving alter ego created in 2020. The album, which marks the return to French for the Acadian singer, is thus a superb conclusion to this pandemic appropriation of 70s clichés set to music by LeBlanc and his glittering accomplices.
Posted at 12:30 p.m.
The disc is dapper from start to finish. Lisa LeBlanc obviously had a taste for fun. The bass of his lover and right-hand man Benoît Morier makes pop! from the first bars of Why do today, a bittersweet ode to procrastination, reminiscent of the tone of the singer’s first record. However, the musical atmosphere is joyful and casual, interspersed with an excellent soaring bridge that “lulls us in the arms of denial […] until the trumpets announce the arrival of the fact that I have not squealed! “, supports the singer. It’s delicious.
LeBlanc and his companions – Léandre Bourgeois and Mico Roy of the Hôtesses d’Hilaire complete the quartet credited with most of the compositions – had fun drawing on the repertoire of the 70s to spice up the sauce of chic disco, without ever having the impression of dealing with an oven-warmed TV Dinner. We therefore recognize Gloria Gaynor in the intro of In the juiceBlondie in the bridge of the same song, James Brown in gossipToulouse in the choirs of Do you want to enter my bubble a Curtis Mayfield groove to honor the Acadian Menu and even a sequence of chords reminiscent of a well-known Led Zeppelin song in Seems easy to menice “feel good” conclusion of the album.
Elsewhere, it’s the instrumentation that harkens back to the glory days of prefinished woodgrain; Antoine Gratton’s string arrangements are impeccably kitsch everywhere, the brass are as sweet as one could wish, not to mention the mellotron, a legendary instrument of the time if there ever was one!
Do we miss the raw side of the banjo rocker discovered in 2012? A little, no doubt, but as she confided to our colleague Josée Lapointe, her instrument “is not dead”. “I just squeezed it for this album. »
funky
chic disco
Lisa LeBlanc
Bonsound