Marco Ema | Classic Indie Pop ★★★

Winner of My first Place des Arts and finalist at the Festival international de la chanson de Granby in 2017, Marco Ema is releasing a debut album this fall that has obviously been thought through for a long time, and that he launched in a big way – nothing less than a immersive show presented at Club Soda at the end of October.



Josée Lapointe

Josée Lapointe
Press

Where our bodies go to die is a pure indie pop product produced by Simon Pednault (Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Tire le Coyote), a classic youthful album that has fun and seeks itself, lulled by music from the 1990s and contagious energy.

Lots of songs quickly act like earworms – January has just resumed, This is not a love song, Rose Nostalgie -, and we find there a light melancholy, keyboard beds, guitars just distorted enough, a voice that carries, living texts with well-shot images.

In fact, Marco Ema masters the genre, is well surrounded and his album does not lack qualities, but it is as if the whole lacked relief, or that it was too exactly where we expected it – except for a few brilliant flashes that come to surprise us, for example in the lyricism of Tightrope walker (everything will remain the same) or in the moving stripping of Reflection. So we wake up suddenly feeling the heart of the singer-songwriter beating more.

A first step successful, but above all, full of promises.

Where our bodies go to die

Indie pop

Where our bodies go to die

Marco ema

Rosemarie Records


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