2025, female year? While on the Brittany side, Louise Papier remembers us fondly after his great first EP of 2022 with a first single released in October and a second coming in a few days, which we are waiting to find out more about the continuation of his friend's adventures Champion after a very successful start to the year with a superb EP, a KEXP session and notable appearances at the Transmusicales as well as the Vieilles Charrues, it is this time in Le Havre that what could be one of the revelations is taking shape of the coming year. Lola Sauvageot was not born from the last rain. The young Parisian, who passed through Strasbourg or Montreal for her cinema studies in particular and who has now traveled up the Seine to settle at its mouth, nourishes her artistic approach with multiple influences (poetry, drawing, cinema, theater, performances) to end up choose music to express them. After multiple attempts documented over 5 years on her Bandcamp page or her YouTube channel where she seemed to be searching for sound and writing through music that could not be more minimal and lo-fi, it was on the banks of the Channel that she found the traveling companions to give substance to his more electric aspirations.
The Wavethe first single from this new Norman and rock life will undoubtedly remain one of the great discoveries of the end of the year. If many points bring Lola Sauvageot closer to her Breton alter-egos, starting with a well-established vocal signature, her music refers more to desires from elsewhere, from the America of Chan Marshall to Australia from Courtney Barnett. Rock in short, the one which ignites with a simple spark on a metronomic rhythm, which unfolds its grainy melody in a contained electric flow, seems to calm down on a chorus which enters into the lead without difficulty before becoming tense, harden to finally explode, with as much restraint as firmness. And although we can also detect some well-chosen French influences, it is for example Genius rock For Our Martian Lives that they echo.
So we gladly follow Lola Sauvageot in her pretty homemade video, with the family and which takes us into the open air on the heights of the ocean city, near the Hève lighthouse swept by this wind of electric freshness which we hope will it will continue to blow in the coming months. A case definitely worth following.
