Lisa LeBlanc, in “Chiac” once a good surprise – Liberation

Folk trash

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–In her new album, the Canadian singer mixes disco, slow funk and melancholy lyrics in a French mixed with English, spoken in her native region of New Brunswick.–

If we had to keep only one of all the pop albums that have revived the tired old heart of disco with electroshocks in the last two years, it would be this one: Chiac Disco. It was released in March and we had inexplicably missed it, just as we had inexplicably missed Lisa LeBlanc’s first album ten years ago, when the young Canadian from a village in her fifties of inhabitants in the depths of New Brunswick delivered there, at only 23 years old, a pure masterpiece of humor, rage, melancholy, masterfully written – and all that on the banjo!

Since then, the singer has scoured the stages with her “folk trash”, released two albums in English and braved the pandemic gloom by creating a festive musical alter ego, Belinda, a rombière with mega brushing practicing high-dose bingo and whose other hobbies are “Brisk walking, making house wine, karaoke and chairing the “Christmas in July” committee at the “Fait beau icitte” campground in Shediac”. No doubt it’s this prankish incursion into dancing sounds seventies which caused a click. In any case, the marriage of this musical genre with the more chiseled writing of Lisa LeBlanc, without a wig, works wonderfully. His wave in the soul left beautiful remains, summoned here to be celebrated rather than to…

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