Selective Listening | Beyries, Biggy Boats and Le Roy, la Rose et le Lou[p]

Every week, our music journalists add songs to the playlist of The Press on Spotify. Here are three recent titles that are in our selection.

Beyries, Time

We find with delight the warm and moving voice of Beyries on Time, a pretty, simple folk song. And good news, it’s also the first extract from an album in French, Fire in the lilacs, to come in 2024. On the texts, the singer-songwriter found Maxime Le Flaguais, who had written her hit I will be a hundred years old, but she also collaborated with a high-quality team: the Frenchman Albin de la Simone on piano, Robbie Kuster on percussion, François Lafontaine on synths and Joseph Marchand on production. It’s sweet and it’s melancholic and at the same time full of hope, and we’re already looking forward to winter to hear the album in full.

Josée Lapointe, The Press

Biggy Boats, Already seen

Brenton Boatswain, aka Biggy Boats – in homage to The Notorious BIG –, worked for a year and a half on his album Artifact, launched last week. The Dollard-des-Ormeaux resident’s wish was to bring together the cream of Montreal rap and young artists he considers promising. On the 19 tracks we find names such as Mike Shabb, Nate Husser, Kris the $pirit, Chung, Do the Outcast, Kid Riz and Young Rose. THE beats are among others the work of Funkywhat, Gaudz and Nkusi. The whole thing is successful and moves skillfully from trap to R&B with a few hints of boom bap, alternative rap and passages in French. The room Already seen stands out particularly for its cozy atmosphere established by the production and melodious rap of Gxlden Child. Biggy Boats, who has been recording since 2018, follows him with a very fluid verse.

Pascal LeBlanc, The Press

The King, the Rose and the Lou[p] (Theme song)

It’s hard to resist the joyfully pop and youthful anthem of the trio of the hour, made up of Ariane Roy, Thierry Larose and Lou-Adriane Cassidy. With The King, the Rose and the Lou[p] (Theme song), the three singer-songwriters and friends give a fiery overview of their joint tour which will start in November, and which is one of the most anticipated events of the season in Quebec music. Taken separately, these three already have a very strong signature. Together they are hectic and free, and this tiny two-minute song does so much good that we can listen to it on repeat without getting tired, because we too want to let our hearts speak.

Josée Lapointe, The Press