ANOHNI does not sing in vain. Thirteen years after her last album with The Johnsons, five years after her last solo EP, the musician makes a comeback with necessary words echoing the ills of our world, on music this time imbued with the expansionist soul of the 1970s. The way you talk to me, it must change / The things you do to me / The way you leave me / The seeds you give to me, it must change », she sings, with her voice with its unique timbre and tremolo, from the first bars of the album, on a groove soft wrapped in violins that would have found its place on a Curtis Mayfield album. Noting the damage caused to the environment, she offers a lament in the form of a stripped-down pop ballad called There Wasn’t Enoughbefore resuming the taste of groove on the existential Why Am I Alive Now? The statement is alarming – with a note of comfort on the splendid Rest —, and the musician chooses a more accessible musical form than on the previous four Johnsons albums to ensure that we capture our attention. It succeeded.
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