She had never really left them. With *Malabar Princess*, her third album, Vendredi sur Mer marks a return to her roots, to the landscapes that shaped her. She abandons the combative spirit that drove the lyrics of *Métamorphose* to rediscover the tenderness of *Premiers émois*, with a new touch of nostalgia. But while *Malabar Princess* takes its name from a 1950 plane crash on the surface of the Bossons glacier, it borrows nothing from the associated catastrophe. Far more than a crash, this third album is a return to a land too long deserted: a sincere record, nourished by poetry and doubt, reflecting an artist who has learned to listen to her desires.