Review — “The Angry Lark. Anniversary edition”, Félix Leclerc

Yes, the whole album is more stereo than before. Space ventilation. Of course, it’s an essential record for Félix, which indeed “marked a turning point in his artistic and personal journey”, as his daughter Nathalie writes in the introductory note. This is the album after the October crisis, the album where Félix, “whipped”, reacts, brandishing his songs like fists. But it’s the unreleased pieces that we listen to first. Jean-Pierre Sévigny, the project manager, sets the scene: we are in the home studio of Jérôme Lemay in 1971, the friend of the Jérolas. Jean Lapointe is there too, Félix goes there guitar-voice. “First shot,” he said. And There you go The angry lark. False start… he continues. It’s raw, almost brutal. The final version, we can now compare, is softened. Polite. Six demos, including two “hits” of the 100,000 ways to kill a man, it passes quickly, and at the same time, it pushes back eternity. We have Felix in the present. Who still changes a word here and there. Felix and his guitar. With us again. For the sequel.

The angry lark

★★★★ 1/2

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