Selective listening | Gros Soleil, Charlotte Cardin and Rosalia

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.

Big Sun, blue mountain

Rock soaked in the nostalgia of the golden years of Mötley Crüe, Poison and Kiss: that’s the recipe for this group from Montreal. And all in French. Unpretentious rock with a kitsch side so assumed that we can only love. The room blue mountain can be listened to in the car, the windows rolled down, the sunglasses on the tip of the nose and the hair in a cropped cut (Longueuil cut) flying in the wind. Jerky electric guitar, drums in the foreground, two small flights of synthesized notes… and this voice – which becomes robotic in the manner of Normand Brathwaite on Tears of metal… what a beautiful flash! – which launches: “700,000 trucks that burn diesel, to transport all our little things, generations without a destination”. Yes, you can be a Tommy Lee rock fan and be aware of the current environmental distress. A success.

Philippe Beauchemin, The Press

Charlotte Cardin, 99 Nights

Since April, Charlotte Cardin has been gradually revealing what her second album will look like, which is scheduled for release on August 25. After the excerpts looping and the English and French versions of confettiit’s the turn of the title track of this new opus, 99 Nights, to land on streaming platforms. Resolutely nostalgic, this song with its bewitching chorus and its synthesizer notes will have the effect of a balm on the hearts of lovers whose relationship is wavering. A comforting piece that we will want to listen to again and again while waiting for the full album at the end of the summer.

Veronique Larocque, The Press

Rosalia, tuya

Spanish star Rosalía taps into reggaeton on her latest track, tuya, a carnal song intended to raise the temperature at the dawn of summer. Pursuing further his sound explorations sometimes tinged with flamenco heard on his album Motomami, she poses here her high-pitched voice on a clubbed rhythm and also a melody shelled on the koto, a traditional Japanese plucked string instrument associated with kabuki and bunraku. His song is accompanied by a clip shot elsewhere in Japan.

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press