Twenty-five year career.
La Grande Sophie can't believe herself.
We needed a new album to keep moving forward.
This one is called
Modern Life
and it's a good vintage from a singer who flirts with excellence from record to record, without fuss or brilliance.
A success that reveals itself over the listening, with a rich and subtle production.
A wonderful balance between fidelity to fundamentals and interest in novelty visible from the cover.
She superimposes a selfie taken with a smartphone, very 21st century, with image processing, the cyanotype, developed in the 19th century.
A bias, to signify an in-between that is more an artistic manifesto than a search for compromise.
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Is the…
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