I had never heard of Rosier, a 5-piece from Montreal, who dab in Canadian folk music but in this single, they take a more sunshine pop-influenced route. Which is nice. An inspirations playlist on Spotify contains Elliot Smith, Bedouine, Nick Drake and Daniel Belanger.

Some female psychedelica (from Lyon based Wendy Martinez) for ya. EP out in February.

Another nod to the neon-coloured 80s pop period, when Niagara, Lio and Elli & Jacno ruled the pop charts. And that’s great:

New version of one of the bestest (retro-)songs of the year, now part Spanish.

From Nantes, France. Louis and Suzanne are brother and sister and form Des Roses. Musically, they fish in same pond als Slowdive, Mojave 3, Beach House – with French accents, of course. Dream pop, loud yet soft-focussed. They sing in English and French, the latter fits better I’d say.

Klara Kristin is a Danish model, actress and singer. She just released a cover EP called Lullaby & Drum Machine, with songs originally sung by Marie Laforet, Gainsbourg, Jeanette and Petula Clark. VERY nice voice.

Julie Big & Joe Moore form Julie & Joe. They long back to the days of Elli & Jacno, Mikado, Niagara, Lio et al. You can hear those 80s-influences in this very catchy single:

At the moment, I’m considering moving to Montreal permanently. SO many great singers from Quebec at the moment. Thais Millet, I loved her earlier singles a lot, has released a short album. Listen to Vanille, ‘the shape of chanson to come’, mixing soft-focus atmosphere with big beats and dub-style bass. Listen to the rest of the songs too.

From Switzerland, Xavier & Alizée from Aliose. Making albums since 2017, they’ve recently released an EP. This is not the lead track, but the duet, reminiscent of Biolay/Mastroianni, is my favourite.

Again, from Montreal, Canada. Maelydée (aka Mélissa Doyon) made a quite astonishing debut single. Not a bad idea at all.