With its seven new compositions flowing in 26 minutes, Live Slow Die Wise constitutes a nice comma in the career of the singer-songwriter Geoffroy, who temporarily put away the synths and drum machines with which he made the albums 1952 (published shortly before the start of the pandemic) and Coastline (2017). Also in the closet are the effects that delicately transformed the sound of his voice: it is Geoffroy laid bare, on edge and introspective, this project, he admits, emerging after months of turbulence caused by loneliness and isolation. that marks our pandemic era. We will particularly appreciate the intimacy that emanates from the ballad Sweetpie and the calculated count of Youngblood, a folk-pop gem stuffed with echo, the sound of fingers rubbing on the strings, its scattered piano chords, its choirs kept at a distance. To succeed in this folk detour, Geoffroy commissioned co-director Louis-Jean Cormier, who knows how to do it like no one else to make the silences resonate between two dry guitar notes. Patrick Watson fans, listen up.
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