Review of Erika de Casier’s Album “Still” – The Best Chorus of the Year

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Erika de Casier, Still (4AD)

Without a shadow of a doubt, we find on this record what will remain as the best chorus of the year – that of The Princess, sentimental soul juice pushed from the depths of the belly, almost derailing, sublimely hoarse voice. Or at least that’s what Still, Erika de Casier’s third album, makes us believe, and it’s wonderful, isn’t it, records that do that? The Dane has been accustomed to doing so since Do My Thing, the so sexy locomotive of her first Essentials, released as an autoprod in 2019 and which immediately propelled her into the object of obsession among platform scavengers. At the time, critics, always proud to display their deviances, primarily discussed their fetishes, the singer-songwriter trained in the ephemeral duo Saint-Cava revealing in her basslines and snare drums an interest that was more than pushed for avatars of r’n’b, a genre intensely subject to a race towards modernity, considered obsolete and outdated (new-jack swing, Californian g-funk, smooth funk à la Sade, commercial 2-step à la Craig David). But beyond what she resurrects, Erika de Casier has attached herself to us for something much more precious than her MP3 collection: her irresistible songwriting, leading to an earworm one in three times on average. inextinguishable. Still extends the idyll and plows the furrow, ideally. From the swirls of synthetic harp of Right This Way, an enjoyable transfer of a Rodney Jerk production

2024-02-23 06:11:03
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