Those days when the winner of Granby saw himself automatically bombarded in the spotlight are almost gone. This first album by Marsö (Margelidon), which appeared two years after the victory, must make their way in the new world of nested multitudes, with digital machetes. The fellow, of French origin and Quebecer by adoption, nevertheless refuses guerrilla warfare: he is a gentle person. His type of song is delicate, sensitive, written with finesse and played in various modes, here electro, there funky, a little -M-, a little Jérôme Minière (the verb of Marsö, whose “romantic life is carnage” , is in the same family of light falsehoods). The young man is disarmingly simple at times, but allows himself instrumental sequences where everything is possible (astonishing production by Alexandre Lapointe, circus artist and madman). Sadness and confetti, the title says it: whatever happens, you have to have fun. The final song lifts the veil on these games and reveals Marsö: being happy is the goal, and it’s not easy to get there.
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