Latest Release
- 18 SEPT 2024
- 1 Song
- Paris tristesse · 2014
- Le secret - Single · 2024
- Feu toi, feu moi · 2023
- Balèn - Single · 2023
- L'origine du mal (Bande originale du film) · 2022
- L'origine du mal (Bande originale du film) · 2022
- L'origine du mal (Bande originale du film) · 2022
- L'origine du mal (Bande originale du film) · 2022
- L'origine du mal (Bande originale du film) · 2022
- L'origine du mal (Bande originale du film) · 2022
Essential Albums
- Pierre Lapointe is a hopeless romantic—and that is a good thing. Big ideas push his songwriting to breathtaking heights on his impeccable second album, which cemented his status as one of Quebec's sharpest young talents. Whether alone at the piano, backed by a chorale or a cascading string section, Lapointe sings of life and love with an arresting sense of poetry, a poet's sense of melody and a striking emotional fearlessness. Rarely is pop music so audacious and refined.
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- Songs about love and death from Canada's preeminent art rocker.
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About Pierre Lapointe
Striking the perfect balance between impeccable craftsmanship and flamboyant irreverence, Pierre Lapointe has enjoyed a long and fruitful reign as Quebec’s foremost 21st-century art-pop romantic. Born in 1981 in the town of Alma and raised in Gatineau, Lapointe was a multi-disciplinary maverick with roots in theatre and plastic-art design, before focusing his creative energies into a musical career defined by chameleonic aesthetic shifts and a dramatic, darkly humorous approach to matters of the heart that suggests a franco-pop Morrissey. With his name-making second album, 2006’s La Forêt des mal-aimés, Lapointe retrofitted classic chanson styles into a funhouse-mirrored melange of sweeping orchestration, baroque arrangements, and gritty indie energy. The record hit No. 1 in Quebec, a feat Lapointe would repeat with the carnivalesque crazy quilt of 2013’s Punkt (longlisted for Canada’s Polaris Music Prize) and 2017’s elegantly low-key La science du coeur. But no matter what style Lapointe tries on, the results are unmistakably him: In 2020, he even refashioned the traditional Christmas album in his own eccentric image, highlighting the absurdities and awkward moments of the holiday season on a set of wintry originals spiked with glammy panache, including a duet with kindred pop spirit MIKA on “Six heures d’avion nous séparent”.
- HOMETOWN
- Lac St. Jean, Quebec, Canada
- BORN
- 23 May 1981
- GENRE
- French Pop