A second album confusing, but quality

What to say about this album? Especially that one should not stop at the fact that it includes only titles that have already been heard on stage for several months: some arrangements make them unrecognizable, and that's saying something. Marie has matured, both in the lyrics and in the melody or vocal technique. It is far from gentle ballads now the first album. Life, sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel, deaf to every word. Here we regret the annoying singer there one remembers Verdun, here it evokes a vain love, there is paid glowing tribute to a loved one, there finally dreams become life ...

What always amazed at Marie Cherrier is the maturity of the texts and cultural references that tough interpretation and command respect. It is to find a sensibility transcended by words.

So of course we will find the album a little short: 10 tracks, less than 40 minutes ... We would have liked a few more songs to better understand this multiform universe, from laughter to emotion, walking towards resentment subsided ! Arrangements Marie Cherrier reveal a more mature, more confident, which does not hesitate to speak certain words, instead of singing them. We can find some amazing biases, such as the presence of keyboards that seem to overlap with other instruments a bit haphazard manner (on "Black Coffee" or "Well then what"). We can find the mixing of "Legs wolf" rather abstruse.

Nevertheless, the arrangements, from jazz to pop-rock, give real momentum to the album, while losing pins each title. This is perhaps what one could fault this album: to vary the styles, it's as if Marie Cherrier had not yet found his universe. Special mention anyway to "J't'ai invented" (a real success, both in word and in arrangements), "The tightrope walker" or "Teach me to laugh."

In conclusion, we must admit that evolution is spectacular, and Marie Cherrier takes risks with this album: those, in particular, to leave behind some faithful confused and confusing media by such audacity. But we did not expect less of the beautiful, which has demonstrated since the beginning of her career she did not like the well-paved roads that stick to feathers and, free in his creative process, she wanted to offer spontaneous public image itself ...