Right through the dream-pop sensibility and the swirling-synth psychedelia of Halo Mauds debut album, something uncanny lurks. I never did what other teenagers were doing, she says, by way of explanation. My father is a reverend but my mother rejected all religion, so I was always busy having a mystical crisis.
The record is rich with these contradictions, with the urge to be both precise and vague, wanting to be somewhere and wanting to run away. The music also has a delicate balance between English and French. Maud Nadal grew up in rural Auvergne, in central France, and lives in Paris, but for years she wrote in English. It took me a while to find my voice, to find my language even. I always listened to English music so when I started writing songs they were in English, too, and French came later. Its difficult everything sounds good in English, French is much harder.
That push-and-pull between the languages, where a song often contains both English and French, is another example of the stories lurking beneath the songs When I sing in English, the words float away from me straight away, she explains. When I sing in French, I feel something different, something more immediate, and I think the audience do too.
Title: Je Suis Une Ile
Format: Cassette
Release Date: 21 Jun 2019
Artist: Halo Maud
Sku: 2425085
Catalogue No: CS-BRGR-1417
Category: Alternative
DISC 1
01 Wherever
02 Du Pouvoir/Power
03 Chanceuse
04 Surprise
05 Tu sais comme je suis
06 De retour
07 Baptism
08 Fred
09 Je suis une i^le
10 Proche proche proche
11 Dans la nuit
12 Des bras
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