The Onion

Description

With her soft, deep voice, Lail Arad portrays modern tales and everyday plots with a funny and mischievous tone. Firmly rooted in her time, she surveys like a seasoned explorer the paths taken by her masters of poetry: Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, etc. Her plus? A particular acuity in writing illustrated by erudite and playful social commentaries... A London-born singer/songwriter, Lail Arad released her first album in 2011. Praised by critics, "Someone New" received a succession of rave reviews in the press (Le Monde, Libération, Télérama, Les Inrockuptibles, L'Express, Elle...), radio (France Inter, Oui FM, Europe 1, Radio Nova, FIP...) and television (Taratata, TV 5 Monde, CD Aujourd'hui). After touring France (more than fifty dates across the country), and opening for Herman Dune, Moriarty and even Devendra Banhart, Lail Arad offers her second album, "The Onion": Its first single - 1934 (A song for Leonard Cohen) - a true love song dedicated to Leonard Cohen, was specially written for his 80th birthday. It features everything that made the charm of "Someone New", a fine and detached writing nuanced with self-mockery, in a more indie/folk universe. This album promises to be even more folk, more blues than the first, with a consistently unique writing, full of ardent irony and refreshing freshness.