When two hearts drift apart, sometimes the kindest thing is to stop pretending otherwise. That’s the stark emotional territory Maude Audet explores on “Pas besoin d’se mentir” (No Need to Lie to Ourselves), the new single from her upcoming sixth album Que ta lumière (Only Your Light), out April 10. The Quebec singer-songwriter trades the pop textures of her recent work for something more elemental: a delicate folk ballad built on lap steel, strings, and the kind of melancholic honesty that doesn’t flinch.
The song follows a narrator confronting what’s already gone, facing what can no longer be hidden. “No need to lie to ourselves. You go wherever you want, I’m staying here,” Audet sings over ethereal instrumentation that builds to a crescendo of winds, strings, and her unmistakable voice. “When light creates shadow and divides us, it is sometimes in the lucidity of an imminent separation that the hope of healing is possible,” she explains. It’s the kind of paradox she’s navigated across nearly a decade of introspective indie-folk, from Nous sommes le feu (2015) to last year’s Félix-nominated Il faut partir maintenant.
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For Que ta lumière, Audet reunited with longtime collaborators including Mathieu Charbonneau (co-production, piano, keyboards), Simon Trottier (guitars, lap steel), and Charles Blondeau (drums), while staying deeply involved in every aspect: writing, co-production, arrangements, vocals, guitar, and even the album artwork. The result evokes wide-open spaces and the parts of life that resist easy understanding, a return to the folk signature that first established her on the Quebec music scene.
Audet will bring the new material on a Quebec tour this spring and summer, including a June 18 appearance at Place des Arts’ Cinquième Salle as part of Francos de Montréal. Other confirmed dates include May 29 in L’Assomption, June 5 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, and stops in Saint-Romuald, Drummondville, and Quebec City through the fall. For an artist who’s spent five albums refining her craft, Que ta lumière sounds like both a homecoming and a new beginning.
Photo – Camille Gladu-Drouin
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