Frères Sourires (5): Pierre Lapointe

In Les Inrockuptibles' Top 50 Albums of 2006, there is just one French girl (Charlotte, but ofcourse), and a few French singing guys. There's Miossec, there's Joeystarr, there's Dominique A and there's one Pierre Lapointe. His name rang a very tiny bell, I knew he was from Quebec, and that he recorded a children's album with Ariane Moffatt. When I read the review of his second album La Forêt Des Mal-Aimés in Les Inrocks, I got interested. He's just 24 years old, but makes very grown-up, intelligent and well-arranged music. His MySpace-tribute site calls him the Tim Burton of chanson, a rockcritic wrote he was the lovechild of Thom Yorke and Barbara. Pierre likes his theatrical antics allright - might I add he's the Quebecoise Rufus Wainwright on par with Rufus Wainwright? He won prizes in Canada, contributed to tribute-cd's (Joe Dassin, Charles Aznavour) and stars in nice videos too.

Pierre Lapointe - Deux par deux rassemblés
Pierre Lapointe - Debout sur ma tête
Pierre Lapointe - Les Yeux d'Emilie (Joe Dassin cover)
Pierre Lapointe, Ariane Moffat & Garou - Comptine en mode zen