Deux Visions the new album by Francesca Blanchard is truth in advertising as the album presents two views of this wonderful singer songwriter. On one hand you have the traditional singer songwriter with strummy guitars, lilting vocals, and a bit of heartbreak. On the other hand you have a French chanson artist who is intimate, beautiful, and lovelorn. When you take these two elements and mix them into one record you have an album that's filled with fragile beauty with a striking accent.
Francesca
so easily writes songs that tug at your heartstrings that you'd swear
she was in love with you. Deux Visions succeeds
because even at it's most quiet, minimalistic point it still has your
emotions in a bear hug and won't let them go. This is an album
that's drenched in tears, an album that finds love in a thunderstorm,
and leaves its lover at the airport gate. It's international feel
makes it feel even more lovelorn and Francesca navigates English and
French with such ease that I couldn't tell you where she's from or
what her native language is.
Deux Visions is
the sort of singer songwriter album I can actually tolerate because
it's emotionally gut wrenching while being different from the nine
zillion other singer songwriter albums out there. I love her French
songs and I enjoy her English ones and her ability to turn a phrase
makes her precious. This album doesn't rock or roll but lilt's along
a gentle breeze generated by Cupid's wings. It's the sound of all
that is good and bad about love and how we all need it for better or
worse in our lives.
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