Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’. Clémentine March wrote it in 2017 during the thick of Brexit uncertainty and released at the end of 2019, but the lyrics also contains several climate images that could point to a larger sense of crisis and uncertainty.
March has a variety of influences from Nirvana to a host of Brazilian genres, the country where she lived during her younger musical development. As an instrumentalist she’s worked with Snapped Ankles, Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume, Dana Gavanski and several other artists. The sound on this particular song has echoes of the Velvet Underground, psychedelia and 60s French chanson, the latter of course replacing the Nico’s German style, not to mention a very catchy, simple guitar chord sequence. Phil M.F.U. (Man From Uranus) from the band Vanishing Twin contributes the retro organ part in the middle eight.
More of Clémentine March’s work can be found here. and here. This song is from her album of the same name released by Lost Maps, the label run by Johnny Lynch of The Pictish Trail.
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