Mirabelle

city: Montreal
country: Canada
genre: Singer/Songwriter
styles: Rock, Grunge, Folk

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on hashbrandnew.com since October 04, 2021

ABOUT THIS ARTIST

Laurence Hélie is a Montreal singer-songwriter who grew up in the rural Beauce region of Quebec in the ’90s listening to The Cranberries and Mazzy Star, made two much-acclaimed francophone folk-country records a decade later and then hit a wall.

Late Bloomer is music unlike anything Laurence Hélie has ever made. It’s pop music sung in English, which is as natural an outlet to her as any—the way she learned to sing in the first place. It’s stirring, inventive and intimate. Born of a ’90s seed, but decidedly modern, spacious and warm. The album was recorded over almost two years, mostly at Studio Mixart. Spicer’s sonic touch figures prominently, as do the left-field synth sounds concocted by musician Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux.

The heart and spine, of course, are Laurence Hélie’s melodies and her voice. The same voice that sang cover songs in her high school band in Beauce, that won the Felix Award for Best Country Album for her debut, that people sang along with all over, that fell quiet, that she had to lose to find again. She’s calling herself Mirabelle now.