Oh wow! My latest La Guerre review in the French blog Pause Musicales. Translated to us by Andrea Perdue! Thank you! This is gorgeous. "Never has war seemed so sweet. Rocking with slow cadence, Katlyn Conroy’s voice drenches space with emotion, and subtle waves of electro pop. After a first EP The Three, the young lady has just released a second one entitled Violent. Don’t be misled by the warrior name or the title of her album which seem to be a reference to the violence of our century, because behind this arrow and hatchet vocabulary lies a haven of peace, far from ordinary combat. The seven songs navigate through countries of delicate note, for the sensitive soul whose pilgrimage is of unimaginable sweetness. Katlyn’s voice haunts the loops of romantic keyboards, where an eerie melody spreads out like a music box touched with shadowy dreams and clouded desires. Here resonates a folk pop filled with irreversible caresses, waves of rising iridescence and weightless breath, like in the song Chased. The torpor of echos and an ageless, vintage cadence swoons to the sound of limpid harmonies like a wild waterfall. The banks of this universe are sighing notes, forming touching ballads carried by Katlyn Conroy’s voice, which is something like Mazzy Star. Walking though the worlds of La Guerre is not a matter of conquering territories or armed warfare. It is a wandering far from civil war where your feet are carried aloft by a waltz of emotions as in the song Demonic. No pounding fists are to be heard in the shadows, no one to be struck on this horizon – a blurry embrace and a silhouette of sweet harmonies, as in Focus, poignant and infinite. Lovers Sway moves like a lonely dance step, light and melancholy, striking disparate notes, and getting away with a cutting sense of gravity. The notes dance to singular tempos and harmonies soar as in Sorrow Song, leaving you defenseless against the emotion parading around and taking up all of the space. Playing delicately with your senses, La Guerre leaves you and loses you in her melodies full of nostalgia, bathed in a serene calm. She ends Violent with a note of somber hope called I Will Find You. Moving forward, she leaves you with a world to reconstruct. This is a battle of feeling, a sensual body-to-body combat, the fight of a note disarmed by the subtlety of harmonies, a confrontation, a dance with La Guerre and her dream. With this EP, she seems to say “With those who destroy dreams: I declare war.”
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:14:59 +0000
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