New song by upcoming French pop star Maëlle. Posted about her earlier, this is yet another very smart & sexy pop song. The beat and sample (is it a sample?) reminds me of Solange’s Losing you.
Monthly Archives: April 2026
Viragezero
It’s the hard funkin’ bassline that draws immediate attention. The melancholy-filled, eighties-referring female vocals are a high point too. As is the head nodding beat. That Viragezero is inspired by 90s abstract hip hop and electronica-overlords like Boards of Canada, also a big plus.
From the bio: ‘Viragezero is a new Geneva-based project born from the meeting of several musicians well known on the local scene. Around the brother and sister duo of Citron Citron (Zoé and Augustin Sjollema) gather two former members of L’Éclair (Sébastien Bui and Elie Ghersinu, also a member of Magic & Naked) and a musician from Magic & Naked (Léonard Persoz). Five trajectories intersect here to form a new sonic constellation, somewhere between dreamy electronica, hazy guitars and rhythms inherited from trip hop.’
Let’s follow this lot very closely.
Jérôme & Salomé
Salomé Leclerc has a modest role on the new Jérôme Minière single, but anything with Salomé is worthy of posting here. Plus, it’s a cool song, about a calculator. Or, maybe, about trusting the machines a little too much (hello ChatGPT).
Rosie Valland
‘Confession/Ces jours-ci/Je m’affale/Comme un naufrage.’ Makes two of us, Rosie, in these dark days of destruction, I too feel like I’n collapsing (affale) like a shipwreck (naufrage). Good thing Montreal’s Rosie Valland put the song to a very uplifting dance beat: when all else fails, you can still dance. I hope.