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For her second album, En attendant Nico, M\u00e9lanie Isaac returns to the simplicity that marked her early beginnings. It\u2019s a back-to-essentials journey where songs, voice, and lyrics take center stage, each moment carrying a deeply personal, autobiographical weight. Far from contemporary trends, the musical setting is organic, vibrant, and luminous: nine tracks recorded, produced, and mixed at Wood Studio in Ch\u00ean\u00e9e with Maxime Wathieu\u2014an approach whose honesty is disarming. The Ardennes-born singer never gives in to the lure of easy charm, choosing instead the raw intensity of piano, drums, and guitar, where voice and melody reign supreme.<\/p>\n

After L\u2019inachev\u00e9e, a widely noticed EP (winner of the Franc\u2019OFF Grand Prize at the Francofolies de Spa), and Surface, a first album praised by critics (including a Coup de c\u0153ur from Francophone public media for the single Paradis Nord), En attendant Nico reads like the logbook of a woman whose sensitivity clashes with a society searching for meaning (Elle cherche le A), who resists the siren calls of the times (Le camp et la couleur), and who prefers poetic self-evidence to prefabricated rhetoric (Le sublime ordinaire).<\/p>\n

Now seemingly reconciled with her past (Le Tilleul, Une fleur sur le piano) and ready to face her ghosts (Je te garderai, Adieu je reste), M\u00e9lanie Isaac sketches an immediate escape route for our wounded souls. What has changed? Perhaps the arrival of her daughter\u2014carried within her during the recordings\u2014who lent her name to the album\u2019s title track, En attendant Nico.
\n\u00a9 Photo : Lydie Nesvadba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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