Pomme - Les Failles

A good thing with Pomme is, she learns quickly. After a decent 1st EP, but where some people seemed to orient her to what she didn’t want to become (a beautiful girl singing hits written by others), then a good album which already was more like her, yet staying the result of more or less lucky collaborations, Les Failles paves the way to her very style at last. Her own personal unique style. (For I fear neither redundancy nor pleonasm.)

Immediate support to "La Lumière". Not only the song is very well written, but besides it’s super well arranged and produced, up to the slightest sound effects. A work close to perfection. If this track isn’t released as a single (and as a video) I’ll do a carnage!

Whereas you meet guitar and autoharp again, Pomme’s favourite instruments on stage since 3 years, this time the piano, played by Albin de la Simone, dominates. Albin’s fans will certainly recognize his touch since he co-produced the album as well.
You can meet a little too many oh oh oh’s, which is a recurrent Pomme’s flaw. Too bad.

All signed by the young female artist, the songs turn out to be truly pretty and prettily true. It’s more difficult to do than you can imagine. Just take the major-minor modulation in "Les Séquoias", on the word "Avant...", or the use of ternary rhythms (in 3 pieces).
As for the themes, whereas À Peu Près> was mainly lovesongs, they are now more diversified and broach the flaws ("Je Sais Pas Danser"), Alzheimer’s disease ("La Lumière"), personified anxiety ("Anxiété", with exceptional vocoder on her voice), or winter spleen ("Soleil Soleil")

Illustrated by Ambivalently Yours’ peculiar and tortured drawings, this album forms an ode to difference ("Grandiose") and to imperfection. Cause everybody’s got flaws. This is quickly learned.