Selective listening | Elisapie, The Smiling Bottine and Marie-Gold

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.

Elisapie, isumagijunnaitaungitq (the Unforgiven)

In 2021, the most popular of the Big Four groups launched The Metallica Blacklist, which included no less than 53 covers imagined by other artists of the 12 songs included on his legendary black album. But this collection certainly did not contain such a bewitching version of the Unforgiven than the one, in Inuktitut, that Elisapie revealed this week (and which allowed her to carve out a place for herself on the platforms of the magazine RollingStone). Could the singer perform it in August with the four veteran metalheads during their visit to the Stadium? Elisapie already has, in any case, a kind of link with guitarist Kirk Hammett, whom she interviewed on the airwaves of the Salluit radio station, TNI, when she was only 15 years old. Can’t wait for this piece of archives to be unearthed!

Dominic Tardif, The Press

Marie Gold, Global Beat Bank

Always very drooling, Marie-Gold returns with a second extract in anticipation of her next album, Back to baveuse city, which will be released on July 7. On Global Beat Bank, the rapper presents herself as a machine for producing music, a “cash cow” of queb rap. She chains the flows fast and sharp on a beat obscure signed Fifo, embellishing the whole of the determination that we know him. Marie-Gold will take part in the Laval National Day show on June 24.

Philémon La Frenière-Premont, The Press

The smiling boot, Pretty Quebecoises

Jean-François Branchaud is the one who carries the first song of the next disc of La Bottine Souriante, unveiled at the approach of the national holiday. It is called Pretty Quebecoises (a somewhat curious choice in our time) and is part of the tradition of humorous songs. It puts forward the jazzy trad sound that we know, but with a renewed swing.

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press