Dans la chorale

Description

IN THE CHOIR, A MORE INTIMATE ALBUM — After a five-track EP and a debut album praised for its originality in the realm of Francophone pop, Goël returns with a more stripped-down, folk, and decidedly contemporary format. The taste for meticulous arrangements remains intact and serves a pointillist orchestration, where crystalline guitar arpeggios are supported by an alto, a bass clarinet, and layers of keyboards on the edge of ambient. This desire for clarity has also influenced the voice and the lyrics, which, in this calm atmosphere, assert themselves even more with this very particular writing style, precise, concrete, and rooted in the long term. - - Throughout this album, we discover a new gallery of characters, animals — again! — and settings observed from very far away or very close, depending on the mood. It also features this way of weaving small fables with enigmatic morals, which take root in the reality of objects or landscapes of all kinds, marine, terrestrial, urban… By Goël's own admission, these twelve songs evoke figures summoned by childhood memories and, overall, more personal lyrics. The choir mentioned in the title is also the one that fills and animates memory, where we hear both the departed and the living.