This review first appeared in the March 2017 issue of Life in Québec Magazine.
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Title: Troisième Acte
Artist: Sally Folk
Price: $16.99 (CD) $11.99 (iTunes)
Label: Musicor
Review by Ruby Pratka
In the criticism business, “interesting” is often a euphemism for “strange,” but Sally Folk’s fourth album, Troisième Acte, really is interesting.
If it were a colour, it would be the hottest hot pink nail polish you wore as a teenager.
If it were a meal, it would be a flashy wedding banquet, with light intermezzos added in at just the right moments.
The Montréal-based singer-songwriter, who prefers to keep her offstage name secret, has produced a girl-power masterpiece that incorporates shades of Blondie, Marie-Mai for grown-ups, Ariane Moffatt and Édith Piaf, with a definite feminist twist. Folk is a two-time ADISQ award nominee for best pop album, and Troisième Acte may be her third time lucky.
Folk blends a few hard-edged tunes about sex and relationships (the punkish, heavily electric “J’aurai ton enfant quand-même,” for example) with songs about everyday frustrations (the earwormish “9 à 5”) and ends on a high note with the swingy, Zaz-esque “Kamasutra.”
Her genre-bending results in some jewels, like the waltz-rant “Les Putains du Carrefour.”
If you’re a woman grappling with relationships, self-assertion, métro-boulot-dodo and the sometimes contradictory expectations placed on 21st-century women, you may find that this unique album puts your frustrations to music.
Yes, despite the name, it really is her fourth album.
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