Summer’s ending, grooves keep coming. This is a warm blooded dance track by Claudia Bouvette, love that atmosphere and those echo drenched effects. First time Claudia’s on this blog, she’s Canadian, she’s part of this great song, she made two albums and sings mostly in English. But luckily, also in French.
There’s a lot going on in this song by former The Voice (La plus belle voix, in France) participant Louise Combier. What attracted me in the first place is her pleading, slightly out-of-breath-voice. It adds to the emotional value of the song, the lyrics are about self-acceptance and forgiveness and breaking away from repetitive patterns. Louise wrote the track and plays all instruments, it has a slight 80s synth-pop influence (doesn’t that piano-pattern remind you of Bronski Beat?), also with that vintage sounding drum computer. I keep hearing new sounds and choirs in the track, it’s one of the real highlights of this year.
Very nice, poppy late-summer-vibes single by Hermance Chaillou, who has that lovely gravel on her vocal chords. Instagram (with live clips) HERE. She’s apparently a music coordinator at Spotify.
And with this VERY sensual track by Amouë I’m leaving you for the summer break. See you in september.
New and very fun Joe la Panic song. Not sure what ‘tudum’ means, the song is about the struggles of modern day dating with boys only wanna, well, tudum. There’s only one guess, tho. Love the simple yet higly effective video:
Making these mixes since 2010, still naming ‘m the wrong way, but the selection is still cool too. For your Autoroute du Soleil driving pleasure. It’s more groovy, more yachty, more funky. With tracks mostly from 2026, duets, girls, guys, even an instrumental track. Find it on Spotify HERE.
Also new, but this will take a few spins to really appreciate: Pomme’s new single. It sounds like early nineties grunge, the Veruca Salt/Belly/Liz Phair variety.
Strong pop song, with a driving beat. Very different from Louane’s Eurovision entry. Great feature for Elisa Palmire, a new voice (2 singles so far, very smokey):