The emancipating strength of brave lyrics is joining progressive productions, intimate and epic. It’s to discover on Une Voix, Ina-Ich’s new album. Review.
UNE VOIX – INA-ICH
This unique voice belongs to Kim-Thuy Nguyen Clair’s. With Aurélien Clair, she forms Ina-Ich – the French alternative rock band’s powerfulness has left me speechless. Une Voix, it’s the name of their new record, and what a record it is! All of their influences come together here, and they are diverse. Most of all, they reveal a passionate heart. The introduction is an immense favourite. It’s the efficient and biting Serpent, that erases all doubts: toxic relationships, we can get through them, despite the poison they can diffuse. ZOMBii has a similar rage on a different topic, a captivating piano that highlights this passion by giving it an 80s vibe.
In their most surprising influences, for a rock band, we pick up classical music and jazz too. Le Temps, and its existential reflection; the vaporous Mon Étoile; and CROP of which the progression reveals a rebirth process under the sign of vengeance. A visceral and cathartic vengeance. On all tracks, this voice is breaking, rebuilding itself, gathering strength, and getting higher in impressive notes. But Stabat Mater might be the most telling example of this fact, all on a refined production.
Une Voix by Ina-Ich, is a powerful rock, empowering, that asks – or rather demands that we listen. It’s a need to share their pain in vivid vocals, and a spotless eclectic production. It feels amazingly good, it’s liberating (Connard) and even in the softer instants. Tous Tes Mots Doux and Jusque Là also prove the balance between tenderness and strength. Because these two ideas and sensations are not mutually exclusive. Not between Ina-Ich’s hands. And it’s with that balance that the band closes the record with the intimate yet epic Infini Présent. An overall gem.
