Life’s full of happy coincidences.

Call it happenstance. Call it serendipity. We call it Le Montais.

 

Taking her grandmother’s maiden name, Jersey native Le Montais has been operating under the radar in London for a little over a year now penning and producing for artists (Hobbie Stuart, Samuel, Betsie Gold) around her whilst carving out her own niche, establishing her identity and indeed her politics. She’s succeeded in creating an aesthetic (in collaboration with producer/director/designer Lucy Abraham) that works in harmony with her ideas of strong female identity, modern feminism and the contrasting ideas of old age female expectation. It’s these ideas of feminism which, when understood in the context of the French translation of Le Montais (“was riding him”) feels all the more serendipitous. 

 

Perhaps in contrast to the empowerment of her name however, Le Montais debut single ‘Your Favourite Guy’ offers up a more introspective narrative. Produced and recorded by Le Montais herself, it addresses the pitfalls of modern young love, and is described as “an acknowledgement that everyone has a past and as such, moments of hurt, and in how that as a result, we’re scared as young people to get in too deep with things cause we don’t want to…feel pain.” 

 

Taking its cues from a variety of genre-defying female artists (Kate Bush, Lana Del Ray) it’s four minutes of haunting synth-pop. Understated and elegant, and accentuated by Le Montais’ timeless dusky vocal delivery: a bold statement of intent from an artist with plenty to say.