The Montreal-based folk-pop artist welcomes the push outside her comfort zone

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Basia Bulat - Basia's Palace [Streaming]

Canadian singer Basia Bulat has tried on various musical hats during her career but is most associated with singer-songwriterly folk-pop. Her last album was the melancholic, string-swathed The Garden ...

Basia Bulat · Basia's Palace · Song · 2025

En 2022, Basia Bulat nous invitait dans son jardin (The Garden), mais cette fois, elle nous convie dans son Palace. Un endroit résolument Pop qui invite aux souvenirs sans n'être uniquement rétro. Sur Basia's Palace, l'autrice/compositrice/interprète s'est enfin permis de se poser afin de regarder autant derrière que devant. Les mélodies sont accrocheuses et juste assez planantes, donnant à l'album ce petit je-ne-sais-quoi qui, à défaut d'être de plus original, est fort séduisant.

On Basia's Palace, Basia Bulat delivers thoughtful adult contemporary love songs with plenty of heart and without pastiche.

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track by Basia Bulat

track by Basia Bulat

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Basia Bulat doesn’t live in a château. The property at the heart of the songwriter’s new studio album is at once her apartment, her jam-space—and the inside of her head. Basia’s Palace is a place festooned with love and memory, bad wiring; it’s a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night, at a time that’s suited to video games and Leonard Cohen records, when you sit in all that richness, taking in all the mess we inherit. Reuniting with co-producer Mark Lawson, she found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths and early Eurovision tunes, Cohen’s I’m Your Man and Air’s Moon Safari, her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz LPs. The result feels like an album that was concealed behind the backings of Bulat’s childhood photos—tracks like “My Angel,” where mystery and romance mingle over squelchy synths + drum-machine, with a soaring string arrangement by Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Alvvays), or “Laughter”— which was mixed, like all tracks on the record, by legendary engineer Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National)— that takes a quiet domestic scene and sees it build to a deafening sublime. “Disco Polo” is a track Bulat’s been threatening to make forever—a folk-song named for a genre of trashy Polish dance music that was beloved of her father—whereas “Baby,” which took years to finish, makes an elegant dance number out of an oh-too-familiar predicament: “Baby, baby, baby,” Basia sings, “I don’t learn!” At some moments there are shades of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s “Bonnie and Clyde” or Charles Aznavour’s “Emmenez-Moi”; at others it’s the silicon-shiny sweetness of The Cardigans’ “Lovefool” or Air’s Moon Safari. Basia’s Palace is set to be released February 21st, 2025 via Secret City Records. A1. My Angel A2. Baby A3. Spirit A4. Right Now A5. Disco Polo B1. The Moon B2. Daylight B3. Laughter B4. Curtain Call

Und weil ich der Pop-Musik ja aber grundsätzlich, auf Ebene der Musik wohlwollend gegenüberstehe, liegt jetzt hier "Basia's Palace" von  Basia Bulat vor mir auf dem Plattenteller.

Basia Bulat & Mia Kelly @ NAC Theatre