Rosier

This song draws inspiration from the timeless tales of mothers cautioning their daughters about the dangers that lie ahead. “I was listening to Lomelda’s masterpiece ‘Hannah’ on repeat. Some of her beats reminded me of traditional québécois foot percussion (pretty far-fetched, but I think there’s something there…). I was feeling very inspired by the lo-fi alt-pop sounds of modern singer-songwriters and wanted to play around with it in a rootsy-Rosier way. I made a demo of this mother-daughter dialogue with a scratchy nylon string, a cheap DI’ed electric guitar, an old digital drum machine, and a timid combo of French and English. In April last year we converted an Airbnb chalet in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, into a makeshift studio and finished the track, overlooking a frozen lake.” Béatrix Rosier’s second LP “elle veille encore” (Release: November 8) is a bittersweet ode to motherly spirits – a soft-spoken poem that reflects on themes of maternal nature. While researching and collecting folk songs, Rosier unearthed a tapestry of maternal stories – some beautifully familiar, others unsettlingly so. The tales on this record delve into the multifaceted depiction of mothers – both mother figures, and those connected by blood – in an attempt to dissect the true meaning of this sacred bond. Comfort, abandonment, death, consolation, illusion, and punishment float through this 9-track record. The songs on elle veille encore are deeply rooted in the folk realm but venture into the ethereal territories of dream-pop and indie-tronica. The record weaves a carefully collaged soundscape of strummy guitars, shimmering synths, deconstructed beats, vintage DX7 samples, field recordings, upright piano, and layers of breathy vocals in French and English. Much like the storytelling in the record, the quintet’s arrangements shift from soft and luminous tracks to dense, more distressed musical moments. Pieced together in the last 2 years,” elle veille encore” stands as the band’s most introspective and personal record to date.