The title of Viviane Audet’s latest album, The nights move like trucks on the girls, is impactful. The content of the work is just as important. But in all the pain that the artist addresses, she infuses such a great dose of beauty that the whole thing can be listened to on a loop. We are touched and we want more. The opening song of the disc, Botanics, deals with domestic violence. The title of the album had warned us and we enter directly into the heart of the matter. Here, Viviane Audet addresses the emancipation of a person who manages to escape from a toxic relationship. “You will no longer drink from the water of my eyes”, she says in her soft voice, magnified by pretty cello and harp arrangements.
In addition to the seven songs, the album is punctuated by three instrumental piano pieces. If the interruptions of the genre sometimes break the rhythm, these moments of extreme sweetness, which respond to each other over the course of the disc, are more than welcome on this disc. The themes of the album scratch us and, from time to time, we are balm with these pieces, entitled Antheses 1, 2 And 3.
Sambal Olekbeautifully written and more groovy, interrupts a slower rhythm that only the title track had changed before. The latter is also a perfect antithesis, between its difficult theme and its fast tempo. Whistleblower, feminist, calling for resistance, the play is accompanied by a music video, shot by documentary filmmaker Sarah Baril Gaudet, which is worth seeing.
Penultimate song (not counting the last Anthesis), announcing the end with piano chords, you can fall is striking in its splendor, the piece that we will listen to most often. “It won’t do you any good not to exist/We’ve been dead longer than we’ve been alive anyway “, intimate Viviane Audet, on this piece where she asks this “you” who becomes a loved one to take her hand. “You can fall, I have you,” she sings on the magnificent chorus of this disc lined with beauty.
French-speaking pop
The nights roll on like armored trucks on the girls
Viviane Audet
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