Causing surprise on the French music scene with his first solo album, Crave (2018), the singer-songwriter (of music on the screen, too), performer and multi-instrumentalist Léonie Pernet amazes again with The consolation circus, an album as melancholy as the first, but darker. A musically enriched album, the title track possessing the tragic force of the orchestral themes of cinematographic dramas, more demanding because it is less pop, but also more transparent since it is written mainly in French. Bathed in icy synths reminiscent of the atmosphere of Cocteau Twins albums, Pernet moves away from grooves dancing to talk about a world without hope and equally disappointing loves – the false optimism of Crave remains the pace of Songs of Maldoror, frenzied by the sound of the derbouka, a first reference to its North African roots, or the jerky drums of Missing Love, a bittersweet electropop refrain that seems to belong to another era.
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