Claudia Bouvette presents an Apple Music Home Session

Today, Montreal-based singer-songwriter Claudia Bouvette presents three songs as part of an Apple Music Home Session. This intimate, stripped-down project recorded and produced entirely at home features new versions of two of her songs, Touchée-Coulée and Flowers, as well as a cover of Simple Plan's I'm Just a Kid. All three songs are available exclusively on Apple Music.

Less than a year after releasing her first album The Paradise Club, Claudia Bouvette now returns with completely different versions of Flowers and Touchée-Coulée, both taking a more refined form. The original electronic instrumentation of Touchée-Coulée is replaced by heavy guitars and a languid tempo: I felt like it was a song that was meant to be played a little more punk rock. I went back to the basics for this version, in the most simplistic and stripped-down way. To me, it gives a whole new meaning to the song. The track Flowers, which is sparkling and energetic on the album, is transformed into a haunting, ethereal ballad, putting to the fore all the tenderness of Claudia's voice.

These two new versions are accompanied by a cover of Simple Plan's hit I'm Just a Kid, also recorded and produced between her bedroom and that of her friend Tommy Lunaire. Claudia transforms this 2000's pop punk anthem into a sweet ballad carried by her acoustic guitar and delicate voice. She chose this song for its nostalgic value: I'm Just a Kid was a really important part of my youth. I've listened to it easily thousands of times, and it makes me revisit and relive emotions from that period, like a kind of positive nostalgia that transports us to the early 2000s.