The Quebec City-based musical duo, Alexandra Lost, recently released their highly anticipated album titled Smoke through the independent record label Disques Dure Vie.
The album is a beautiful blend of dreamy synth-pop and electro-pop music that showcases the group’s unique sound.
About the album by Alexandra Lost:
Smoke is a bilingual offering that sits at a crossroads between the worlds of trip hop, r&b and folk, between French and English Canada, and somewhere between facing life’s darkest moments and rising up above them.
Faced with the loss of Simon’s father, fertility struggles and a miscarriage, the pair were in deep need of catharsis when it came time to sit down and write their third album.
Having witnessed the promise of life flirting with the certainty of death, the duo became immersed in a wave of inspiration.
They holed up at a friend’s house alongside the majestic Saguenay Fjord and began juxtaposing luminous sound collages with tense breakbeats inspired by the pioneers of British trip hop.
The resulting songs have a somewhat distilled quality, as they explore the transience of life and survival in the face of adversity, like flames rising up through obscurity.
This symbolism came to inspire both the songs and the album’s title, and the spiritual fluctuation between life and death is aptly illustrated by Chanterel Gagnon’s cover painting.
Smoke gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Alexandra Lost – Smoke [Streaming]
