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September 20th, 2023

Claudia Bouvette captures the thrill of freedom on her new single Cowgirl Radio

Claudia Bouvette
September 20th, 2023

Elisapie releases Inuktitut, her highly anticipated fourth album!

Elisapie
September 20th, 2023

2023 ADISQ Nominations

September 13th, 2023

Elisapie unveils a poignant rendition of I Want To Break Free two days before the release of Inuktitut

Elisapie
September 8th, 2023

Laurence-Anne releases Oniromancie, her third album!

Laurence-Anne
September 6th, 2023

Laurence-Anne releases the distressing single Vitesse two days before the release of Oniromancie, her third album

Laurence-Anne
August 30th, 2023

Milk & Bone presents a stripped-down version of their song Sour

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August 29th, 2023

Claudia Bouvette and Sophia Bel extend the summer with First Date (Version française)

August 23rd, 2023

Population II presents C.T.Q.S, a psych-rock ticking time bomb

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August 18th, 2023

Täbï Yösha releases True Colors, her first EP!

Täbï Yösha
August 16th, 2023

R&B singer Täbï Yösha unveils True Colors, the title track of her debut EP

Täbï Yösha
August 2nd, 2023

Elisapie puts her own spin on a Rolling Stones ballad just weeks before the release of her album Inuktitut

Elisapie
July 18th, 2023

Population II announce the release of their upcoming album Électrons libres du québec

Population II
July 5th, 2023

Laurence-Anne enchants us with Flores, a new single in Spanish

Laurence-Anne
June 27th, 2023

Milk & Bone unveils a new side of the song 20MGs with a remix by Uffie and Lokoy

Milk & Bone
June 21st, 2023

Elisapie covers Metallica in Inuktitut and announces new Montreal and Quebec City dates

Elisapie
June 15th, 2023

Täbï Yösha is joined by KNLO on Rosé, an ode to warm summer nights

Täbï Yösha
June 6th, 2023

Jonathan Personne unveils a music video for Deux yeux au fond d'une pièce noire a few days before his show at Les Francos de Montréal

Jonathan Personne
May 31st, 2023

Population II unveils Beau baptême, their first single via Bonsound

Population II
May 26th, 2023

Philippe B releases Nouvelle administration, his first album in six years

Philippe B

LUMIÈRE recalls the frenzy of Parisian nights on Liszt-o-mania and announces GLAM, his second album

Less than a month after the release of the dazzling single Rock Band, LUMIÈRE is back with Liszt-o-mania, a song at the crossroads of folk and rock music inspired by a late night adventure in Paris. He also takes this opportunity to announce GLAM, his sophomore album to be released on April 28th via Bonsound and available for pre-order on vinyl, CD and digital formats now. Featuring an irresistibly melodic keyboard line, this new song aptly sets the tone for his upcoming album.

In the winter of 2022, Étienne Côté (aka LUMIÈRE) was in Paris to work on new material. After attending a concert at the prestigious Philharmonie de Paris, he went to the bar across the street. Once there, his glance met that of a young man, setting the stage for the dilemma that LUMIÈRE describes in this song: should one follow their intuition and go towards the other or stay in their corner, hoping that everything will happen without having to initiate anything?

A nod to Ken Russell's iconic film of the same name, in which Roger Daltrey (of The Who) played the most over-the-top of classical composers (Franz Liszt), Liszt-o-mania evokes the duality between two diametrically opposed worlds: rock and classical music. On one side, irreverence; on the other, conformity. But just as Liszt embodied it, these two worlds may have more in common than one might think.

It’s with spectacle, exaggeration and excess that LUMIÈRE presents himself on GLAM. After singing his desire for emancipation on his first album A.M.I.E.S.A.M.O.U.R., Étienne leaves the countryside to perform in the city with the ambition to conquer the world. GLAM tells the story of an artist who is both lucid and idealistic, aware of the pitfalls of show-business. Behind this glamorous facade, a more introspective side of LUMIÈRE is revealed, one which opens up about his fears and doubts with candor. Once the spotlight is gone, the singer returns home with his shyness, anxiety and an unfulfilled desire to fill a void.

Further pushing the musical blend of its predecessor, GLAM presents a new, more assertive, exuberant and glamorous LUMIÈRE. The album recaptures the codes of the lush music of the 1970s, while returning to the raw energy of the 1960s, an era marked by the popularity of folk, psychedelic rock and chanson française. By looking back to this era, LUMIÈRE offers a multidimensional synthesis of the musical genres that have shaped contemporary pop.

This new album follows an eventful 2022 for LUMIÈRE, who performed in France on several occasions as the opening act for Pierre Lapointe as well as for French pop star Clara Luciani. In Quebec, he brought his project to the stages of several festivals, including Les Francos de Montréal, La Noce, Coup de Coeur Francophone and M for Montreal. He also celebrated the first anniversary of A.M.I.E.S.A.M.O.U.R with a show directed by Solène Paré at La Tulipe.

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