Selective Listening | Marie-Pierre Arthur, Dany Placard, Geoffroy

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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HeavenMarie-Pierre Arthur

It’s been a while since we heard a new song from Marie-Pierre Arthur, whose previous album, Lights to seewas released in 2019. The wait was worth it: Heaven hits you straight in the plexus from the first listen, with its slow, slightly R&B rhythm, its sensitive and empathetic words, and the singer-songwriter’s unique voice that achieves a rare emotion – and arouses just as much. If this fifth album that she announces for the fall releases the same power, we may not recover.

Extract of Heaven

Walk the dogDany Placard

Dany Placard will launch in October nothing less than its 15^e album, titled To have known. Walk the dog is the first extract, and this kind of truly heartbreaking country lament where the narrator cheats his loneliness by taking his dog for a walk has just enough self-deprecation to bring it a touch of salutary humor. The choirs and the brass give a dramatic dimension to the subject, and yet we come away from this listening with a little smile: not that we rejoice in the misfortune of the other, but we really had a good time in it. listening.

Extract of Walk the dog

CAYAGeoffroy

Geoffroy is a notorious globetrotter. We have always heard this irrepressible call from the open sea in his music, and this new song is no exception. CAYA (Come as you are) gives off a kind of gently swaying airy lightness, and as the Quebec singer-songwriter seems to have gotten rid of his screed of melancholy, the result is a joyful and luminous song which calls for summer. CAYA will appear on Geoffroy’s new album, Good Boywhich will be released on June 14 and whose launch will take place at MTelus on June 1^er July as part of the Jazz Festival.

Extract of CAYA