Crippled by doubts, this Franco-Manitoban singer-songwriter is… permanently. We all walk without a floor sometimes, but all the time? Since 2014, when a microalbum signaled it, Paul Cournoyer has been progressing slowly, noticed in his West, but also in Petite-Vallée and Granby: a first album emerges in 2019. Here is the second, which summarizes the journey a little. , like a score sheet of a never-ending match. “No matter how hard we hold on, / One day everything flies away,” says our courageous man as we let go of ballast, in All that is lost. “I am not lost / All the detours lead me to me”, he reconciles with himself in It’s good like this. We think of a Mario Peluso, of these talented damned people who carry around their pain of living like both a burden and a friend. The soft timbre, the caressing folk rock, we don’t want it to end, even if it ends with The darkness. Against all odds, Paul Cournoyer loves the song, no choice. Penultimate title: It runs in our blood.
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