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With an ad hoc backing band made up of Dany Placard (bass) and brothers Ian (drums) and Daniel Romano (guitar), Doiron goes back and forth with intention, leaning into loose, hopeful rockers (the handclap-ready "You Gave me the Key") before digging into that raw, exposed centre ("Well I know we used to love/ and I know we used to laugh/ and I know we used to care/ and I know we used to try," she sings on the vulnerable "How can We").
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"It's been so long/ I haven't had a lot to say," she sings on "Thought of You," a quick rip of a quasi title track that's a little note for fans before she opens her heart further, adding, "But honestly, I felt ashamed/ and honestly I've been afraid to say that I thought of you." I Thought of You was written over the last bunch of years - some tracks for other projects ("Thought of You" is from her 2016 Greville Tapes EP with Nancy Pants), others coming from a more recent period of introspection and isolation - and it's stronger for that full picture. It's a fateful day when Julie Doiron releases a new solo album, and with I Thought of You, her first release of that kind in nine years, is the rekindling of an old friendship. The hazy vocals give most of their space to the instrumentation, a little less to the lyrics - some songs are completely instrumental, and sometimes you forget because the music is spellbinding. An hour-long album with only 12 songs is unusual these days and more akin to prog rock, a genre the band also seems to enjoy given Choses Sauvages II's experimental side - and all the instruments used to create it. the band used a dozen synthesizers to crystallize a specific era, like a mid-1980s Casio CZ-200 and a variety of KORGs and Roland analog synthesizers. The quintet has meticulously tweaked a new electro sound interspersed with psychedelic funk riffs, finding a musical maturity bathed in easily identifiable influences: Kraftwerk ( Homme machine, Conseil solaire), the Talking Heads ( Science du bruit), Gary Newman, Daft Punk and the Italian disco of Giorgio Moroder. What have we missed? Let us know via Twitter Choses Sauvages II, Choses SauvagesĪfter releasing their debut dance-punk album in 2018, Montreal band Choses Sauvages switched to nu-disco, new wave and German krautrock for a followup, modestly titled Choses Sauvages II. So sit back, put your headphones on and have a look at our list of best albums of the year, as chosen by CBC Music producers. And as you read, you may notice a couple glaring omissions: our list of best Canadian classical albums can be found over here, and our list of best Canadian jazz albums will publish on Dec. It was a true gift to suddenly have so much music to listen to as we slowly unfurled and adjusted to this new light.įrom Charlotte Day Wilson's highly anticipated debut album, to Julie Doiron's first album in nearly a decade, to intimately personal albums about our relationship to the environment and climate change (the Weather Station's Ignorance and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Theory of Ice), we had an incredible selection to choose from.
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So, too, did the album release cycle: this year, Canadian musicians who had pushed albums back due to the pandemic found themselves releasing projects alongside contemporaries who'd been writing and recording in isolation. Amid a cross-Canada vaccination rollout, live music was able to slowly come back to life, albeit with restrictions and precautions in place. While 2020 ground to a halt in every way, 2021 felt like a beacon of hope.