“When the possible tend to disappear / I take off and I fly away / For other horizons”, blows Virginie B in Islandera languid invitation to sink into the islands of a fruitful white night.
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These few verses perfectly encapsulate the main idea ofINSULA, which borrows from soul music this way of transcending the ailments of the body, by providing the soul with the balm of music, and of transcending the torments of the soul, by investing every part of one’s body that is vibrated by the rhythm . A twilight exploration of the pitfalls of self-discovery, this first album speaks both of darkness as a refuge and a place that one day one must learn to leave.
Epigone of Frank Ocean and other Celeste, creators who know how to honor the lasciviousness of R’n’B, while rejecting its marshmallow, the singer-songwriter thus imagines an ideal soundtrack for everything that the bedroom can accommodate distress, doubt and ecstasy. “And I envy all those who have already tasted you”, she whispers in the very Prince SEXUSa serious contender for the most luminously dirty song of 2022.
Co-directed by the artist with Louis Jeay Beaulieu, INSULA is an authentic journey in the weightlessness of half-sleep, which therefore deserves to be listened to from beginning to end. It marks the birth of a musician who has certainly assimilated the key sounds of current pop, but who appropriates them with such ease that even her most blatant borrowings pass less for imitation than for homage.
Dreamlike and carnal, lysergic and melancholy; these 11 pieces offer the complex impurity of physical desire the mirror of a rich panoply of dream pop, nu-disco and neo-soul influences, which reach us as if through the veil of a soft trance, somewhere between drunkenness of the setting sun and the promise of dawn.
Alternative R’n’B
INSULA
Virginia B
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