Émilie Zoé - The Very Start
The very star
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2018
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As soon as I started to listen I felt how good it was. I felt I was about to adore it.
Obviously if you are in a perky mood and looking for some music to dance, you don’t really have the right address. But if you are a bit short on sleep, if you let yourself immerse in it, as in a daze, you’re going to find it sublime. It’s going to stir lots of things inside.
Puts Marie boys are tremendously right to recommend her.
In the first place, the disintegration percussions ("6 O'Clock") devastate me. Nicolas Pittet’s drums grasp you cause he always gives the unexpected punch whenever – without it being chance – whereas the guitar sounds have a crazy depth which latches onto you. Not to mention the refined sleep-walking (out of tune?) piano and voice on "Loner", that I imagine going on to a much more filled 2nd part, drums entering, a big bass... This may be happen on stage?
The voice is extremely touching in its intentional way of dis-singing sometimes. There’s some Suzanne Vega, some Sophie Hunger (too easy association) and a drop of Björk – in her diction especially ("Nothing Stands").
Devilishly melancholic, the lyrics bring up here some spirit haunting back an ex ("Blackberries"), and there some dead person who observes life going on around ("Dead Birds Fly").
The Swiss young woman brings backing vocals up to date ("A Fish in a Net", "Sailor", "Tiger Song"). And I challenge you not to feel like singing along with the gathering while listening to "Tiger Song" (or while watching the warm video of its recording, with its do-it-yourself percussions).
As soon as I had finished to listen I felt… I was going to start again.
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"The Barren Land", which is yet the piece that "I zap", if it takes one, is interesting in its 3-part construction: a one-minute-30 liturgical intro which could be enough alone and form a transition track, then the song in itself, good but too short, and a deafening final as in the noisiest sections of the first Radiohead albums (a major 90-2000’s influence, if we need reminding). Even the sleeve reminds me of The Eraser by Thom Yorke.
For what’s left, this trained scientist uses repetition as an ally. Oh, not more than others, don’t worry (hello Gaëtan Roussel), and rather better than some people. Just what’s needed to make the songs identifiable. Like the chorus of "Tiger Song", or like the ostinato guitar theme of "Blackberries", which holds the whole song.
Finally, I’d neglect my duty if didn’t mention the length of "Sailor" (6:58), which stretches over and over again almost without noticing. -
Dead Birds Fly
Tiger Song
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The Barren Land
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The sentence
“They call it time I call it a question mark” ("Would You Still Be Here")
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heremiliezoe.com (12 Hits)
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...And now, listen!
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Created15 October 2019
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Thanks to my mother for making "Nénette", the character of section "What it does to me".