LOVE FRANCE ❘ JOIE DE VIVRE
ON ÉCOUTE MARIE-FLORE
Beach bar sound of the summer…
The pandemic was better for certain musical artists than others. Some were able to make the most of the down time to relax or create, while others missed out on lucrative and potentially career-defi ning tours. The latter was the case for Marie-Flore, whose last tour was abruptly halted mid-fl ow, thus denying her the chance to fully promote an album that had received critical acclaim and looked set to catapult her into the pop-chanteuse elevated ranks of Clara Luciani and Angèle. “I was in a kind of denial for a year. It was like refusing to see that
Marie-Flore’s new album is a superb bounce-back
from the disappointment of not being able to tour her last record
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the album wouldn’t have the life I’d predicted for it,” she recently told radio station RFI.
Undeterred, the Conservatoire-trained musician, whose early infl uences included rock and US garage, as well as house and disco, and who has worked with the likes of Peter Doherty and Julian Doré, knuckled down to write a new record. This time she sang in French, not her usual English and while the lyrical content and tone of Braquage was “a visceral and toxic love story”, the new album is still about the complexities of love but at times it has a really upbeat, danceable feel – notably in lead single Mal Barré, which could easily become the sound of beach bars in France this summer. Je sais pas si ça va is out now.
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