I've personally always considered French the most gorgeous language in the world. I've only been to France once, but I vividly remember being completely absorbed and distracted by the sea of beautiful voices through which my family and I had to navigate each day while we were visiting. It's a vocal aesthetic unlike any other, and it makes me automatically partial to the delicate crooning of Nicolas Michaux.
On "Nouveau Départ," the first track off his new album À la vie, à la mort, the Brussels native weaves French verses through soft birdsong, gentle acoustic guitar, and a charming English chorus that'll lull you into a sweet grinning daze. "We keep dancing on the wasteland / Dreaming of a new start" seems to me the perfect beginning for an ode to life and death, as the album's title suggests.
This'll be all you'll need for your next sunny weekend morning or lazy afternoon siesta, and is, above all, the best kind of reaffirmation that music is indeed the world's universal language.
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