Selective Listening | Klô Pelgag, Lhasa de Sela and Dominique Fils-Aimé

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.

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Klo Pelgag, Free

There is something profoundly liberating in this new song by Klô Pelgag, whose title is aptly… Free. The singer-songwriter has rarely been so danceable, and the irrepressible rise of synthesizers and techno rhythms, combined with the clarity of the lyrics – “ Why are you afraid of running? Why are you afraid of falling? Why are you afraid of living? » –, make it a true outlet anthem. We listen to it on repeat to fill ourselves up while waiting for October 11, the release date ofAbracadabraKlô Pelgag’s fourth album which promises to be just as abundant as the others, and which she produced alone for the first time.

Extract of Free

Lhasa de Sela, The cosechero

This new song from Lhasa de Sela is the most moving new song of the week, if not the year. The cosechero will appear on First Recordings, an album which will be released in September and which will be composed solely of traditional Latin American songs that rocked the childhood of the singer of Mexican origin. Lhasa had recorded them with guitarist Yves Desrosiers a few years before the release of his first album in 1998, and these tapes had sat dormant all that time without ever being released. Rehearing this already unique voice, as well as the origins of what would become the “sound” La Llorona, gives as much chills as it brings tears to the eyes. A real gift.

Excerpt fromThe cosechero

Dominique Fils-Aimé, I love you

Dominique Fils-Aimé releases his very first song in French, entitled I love you, and at the same time makes a slight stylistic shift. His latest album, Our Roots Run Deep, began a new cycle which now continues with this first extract. Surrounded by the Esca Quartet, Dominique Fils-Aimé offers a romantic and enveloping song which serves as a declaration of love towards others, but also towards oneself, when the time comes to choose oneself first. The song clearly refers to the work of Édith Piaf, in its melody and its arrangements as well as in the way of enunciating Dominique Fils-Aimé. But the latter maintains in the foreground its distinct touch, its vocal harmonies like echoes, for example. A piece to listen to again and again, while waiting for the sequel.

Extract of I love you