The Boulay sisters take an electro-pop turn with gentleness and refinement. escape the night. The sound is more polished and the strings less present, but the music is still as much at the service of the words.
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Loaded, the texts multiply the confessions, carried by a quest for truth. Produced by Connor Seidel, the fourth album by the Boulay Sisters follows their departure from their former record company after the wave of denunciations in the summer of 2020, then the withdrawal from the spotlight that followed.
It’s about #metoo with the song you kept silentbut it is above all a big family secret that Mélanie and Stéphanie Boulay confide. You are looking for your shoes is about a close alcoholic, while As if exposes the limits of clemency granted to a member of his family who has been given a thousand and one chances.
If we would have liked more pieces with more melodic liveliness like The lights in the sky and I will make you dance, it’s powerful to hear Mélanie and Stéphanie Boulay name the “ugly things” as they are before ending their album with a song of hope, an invitation to “let life go”.
“Don’t waste all your time / Looking back / Raising dust”, they sing before giving valuable advice to anyone dwelling on anger: keep your light.
Listen to an excerpt from lights in the sky
folk pop
escape the night
The Boulay sisters
Simone Records