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Autour De Lucie
[Village Vert]
For their fourth album, Autour De Lucie play sobriety and choose an eponym title. Without really knowing why, songs like Femme à l'eau de vie and La grande évasion remind of images and souvenirs of these proximity short walks we do on Sunday afternoons, without hurrying, with calm and serenity, so sure that it's the present moment that counts. Become a master in writing texts that are both personal and so universal, Valérie Leulliot's words articulate, light and sometimes avenging (Dans quel pays), like paper puppets that she can fold with precision. With a sound that producer Stéphane "Alf" Briat (Air, Phoenix) wanted more live-oriented, Noyés dans la masse is a follow up to the unforgettable Je reviens from the previous album "Faux movement". Valérie dares to sing in English on Guiding Hands and tries the frivolousness of lyrics on the happy pop song Personne n'est comme toi. However, she doesn't forget that Autour De Lucie also knows how to write melancholic songs that we recognize from the first notes, like Avril en octobre or Sans moi. This album is like its appeasing sleeve, where that protecting sunray masks, with subtlety and a sense of decency, the face of the ones that dare to unveiled themselves. And a very cinematic track ends this album with malice, on which Valérie recite more than she sings; with humour and amusingly, she interprets "Les hommes peuvent être". We could hardly play with her, and suggest: "Les hommes peuvent être... sensibles, tout simplement".
Bertrand Hamonou |
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