Thread for Lucie Antunes on the occassion of her excellent 2026 album ‘Silence’

I am positive that I have listened to and enjoyed albums by French “musician, percussionist and composer” Lucie Antunes before (this is almost certainly why the algorithms in their infinite wisdom chose to alert me of this new album), and definitely 2024’s ‘Amazing Carnaval’, but I think I would remember if any of them hit me as overwhelmingly hard as this one.

I’m jokingly calling it ‘Einstein at the Afters’; a more serious comparison that gets at the same vibe/collision/tension would be ‘Meredith Monk meets Fever Ray’.

But the comparisons that feel most correct to me are Hannah Peel’s ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’ (Hannah coincidentally also has an amazing album out this year in collaboration with Beibei Wang) and feeo’s ‘Goodness’ - there’s a similar sense when listening that there might not be a limit to what the artist will do, or at least what they are capable of doing, but this doesn’t inspire fear or uncertainty, because at all moments the album feels so expertly woven that any journey will somehow thread back to the core of their craft.

I love it.

first two tracks on this are quite promising, the second has a distinctly bjork-esque melody (in a way that feels quite unusual) but the rest of the track isn't really anything like what bjork would do with that

Will check this out!

I think the Bjork adjacent vocals on the second track are by Halo Maud, whose 2024 album Celebrate had some excellent tunes (esp. “My Desire Is Pure” and “Catch the Wave”).