Simon Kearney is one of the most active representatives of the Quebec music scene, which multiplies collaborations and unifying projects — you have to see his web series Cutting pleasurewhich combines cooking and emerging artists, to fully understand the character.
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Simon Kearney is one of the most active representatives of the Quebec music scene, which multiplies collaborations and unifying projects — you have to see his web series Cutting pleasure, which combines cooking and emerging artists, to fully understand the character. The singer-songwriter himself describes his music as rock’n’pop, but in this third album, just like in his previous nifty open househe leans mainly towards pop, whose codes he takes up with keb sauce with a fun casualness and a lot of ambition.
There is something very uninhibited in this album which goes in all directions (too much?), between funk sung with a head voice (We only live once), the Dua Lipa-style pop anthem (two feet in the gravewith Lou-Adriane Cassidy) or the soulful ballad (Honest). “I want to be free like Jean Leloup”, he sings precisely in the song… John Leloupbut we also think of Hubert Lenoir, both in eclecticism and in this desire to transcend pop.
To achieve this, Simon Kearney surrounded himself with multiple talents, writing Jérôme 50, Kinkead, Simon Lachance and Philippe B, co-produced his album with the very solid Marc Chartrain (Patrice Michaud, Daniel Bélanger) and engaged a crowd of musicians — the Montreal Honrstars, the Esca quartet — a question of giving themselves the means to fulfill their ambitions.
If sometimes we seek our true personality through this abundance of ideas, we do not sulk our pleasure: America is festive fireworks full of groove, sometimes even very funny — the singer is also a good storyteller, and the punch of the song Telephone is here to prove it. As he puts it so well in We only live once : “Pleasure is not dead”. Oh no.
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