Selective listening | Our picks for the month of June

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

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

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!

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press

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 shades 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

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

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