Le Coeur Hanté (2009) Fontana North/Universal
With the opening song, Une Tempete dans Mon Coeur, the album roars out of the starting gate and holds the listener hostage with a collection of songs that will not let you go until you surrender your heart to the passion and raw emotion displayed in the music it contains . The album is called Le Couer Hanté and it examines love and relationships from differing points of view and speaks with many voices while doing so. From the power of a dam bursting in ones heart and the ensuing flood of things previously unsaid in the opening number, to the tender and beautiful Tu ne Sais Pas Comment Jolie Tu es, the suspicions of infidelity that live in L’Histoire du Phantom, to the blazing relationship questions in Si On Passait au Feu, these songs ask us what we would save if we suddenly had to really decide what was absolutely necessary in our lives.
While many of the numbers rock out with big questions of life and love Gallant does not omit the humorous side of it all with songs like J’adore Ton Chapeau, a comic bilingual number he wrote with award winning songwriter Gordie Sampson (Jesus Take the Wheel). He also touches on subjects not often approached in song with the aching power ballad Rien Nest Perdu, where the singer refuses to let regret destroy the beautiful memories of a love that has run it’s course, and from the other side of the street, the bounty of love one can discover after fighting to stay together through thick and thin in La Vie De Tous Les Jours Extraordinaire. This is an album that is sure to involve anyone listening as the subject matter moves through topics that have touched us all in some form or other in our lives and does so in ways to make us laugh, dance and cry a little bit. Let this album into your heart and it will haunt you with it’s melodies that will not be easily left behind after the final song. Le Coeur Hanté wants to be the ghost you can’t escape, or resist returning to again and again!
Le Coeur Hanté available is available in Stores, Online and at iTunes.
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