Having gone through the formative experiences of the Granby International Song Festival (finalist in 2021) and the Francouvertes (2022), singer-songwriter Ariane Béliveau (BéLi) launches today by presenting a fierce first album, XUVwhich she aptly describes as “rushing pop”. Let us instead dare to use the neologism “hyperchanson”, a reference to the hyperpop genre that appeared in the early 2010s: if it is firmly on the side of the pop song on the X, Photoromance And Magician at the opening of the album, she and her collaborators (including Blaise Borboën-Léonard, accomplice of Lydia Képinski, in whose shadow BéLi develops) get lost while trying to follow their message on the following songs. We encounter some cryptic texts and evasive melodies, masked by the excess of sound effects specific to maximalist hyperpop; on Totally Psych (duet with Rose de Rau_Ze) and calorifierBéLi sings as much as she raps, thus paving the way for promising avenues.
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XUV
★★★
BéLi, Duprince
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