Try-out: My Kind of Drama - Isolde Lasoen

Drummer, singer, songwriter, front lady, bandleader, ... but few artists have the talent to be versatile at a high level with a distinct own signature. Isolde Lasoen has been the queen of a universe for more than 10 years in which pop music gets the allure of cinema and melancholy sparkles. With her third solo album My Kind of Drama (out on 28/08), she adds a layer of glitter to a top record on which baroque pop, retro-futuristic synths and French touch come together. Nadat Isolde with EP L’Inconnu (2014) and debut album Cartes Postales (2017) had taken her first steps as a solo artist, second album Oh Dear (2023) placed her definitively on the musical world map. Fantastic singles like Douce Mélancolie, Something French and Bed & Breakfast gathered a lot of airplay at home and abroad (Radio 1, BBC, FIP, KCRW, Australia...). The icing on the cake was a spot on the compilation record of the influential British music connoisseur Somewhere Soul. Waar Oh Dear enriched her cinematic sound with influences from vintage soundtracks, psychedelia, French seventies and even prog rock, My Kind Of Drama shifts further towards electronics and her love for French touch seeps through more emphatically: more synths, unexpected chord progressions and a modern, shiny production, while everything remains poppy, melancholic, cool and arty. Eclectic chic meets ciné-pop. My Kind Of Drama is about self-knowledge, diving deeper into your past and taking stock, and love is not missing either. It is an album that celebrates emotion in all its shades. An album on which Isolde gives herself sans gêne all the space to be allowed to be dramatic, as queen in her own musical universe.