On DreamerLudovick Bourgeois broadens the horizons of his pop, without finding his direction.
Posted at 8:30 p.m.
“I’m not afraid of pop. That’s what I’m doing and I’m not going backwards,” said Ludovick Bourgeois to The Press when releasing his second album in the winter of 2020. We can’t blame him for not taking responsibility: he relies on his choruses, arrangements that seek to create dramatic curves and his voice which – we have often underlined – recalls at times that of his late father, to whom his song is addressed Where are you.
On Dreamer, he is not content with pop-rock, but dabbles here and there in slightly less binary rhythms, relying mainly on programming and more electro sounds. He also tries at times a little more syncopated phrasing (let’s say a little like Ed Sheeran), without asserting the fluidity necessary for it to be really convincing. He stretches or cuts words inelegantly throughout his record, by the way. His songs, on the other hand, stand out with texts that seek above all the positive, the hope, the dream.
However, the sauce does not often take on this third complete album by Ludovick Bourgeois. Its sometimes pleasingly flexible and, the next moment, surprisingly flat singing gives the impression that it has been misled or, at the very least, misaccompanied. The realization is sorely lacking in body and leaves with the feeling that there is no overall artistic vision for this record concocted with the help of an army of collaborators (texts, music, production). The young winner of The voice in 2017 ultimately offers a rather nice record, but without much personality that — time will tell — may not live up to its potential.
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