“I’ll be the stranger in a place I’ve known” – ARBRE sound different. Returning to their characteristically expansive sonic realm, they fill it with raw yet profound resonances and sincere yet abstract poetry. In “Mes épaules seront rivières” (translated as “My Shoulders will be Rivers”), their music walks on the concrete pavements of a metropolis. This album is not a refuge; it is a partially transparent mirror. It does not give advice; it observes and interprets, sometimes full of sorrow, sometimes with a damn broad smile and a generous dose of joyful defiance. (…) This album carries more weight, a sense of sobriety. But it is open and vulnerable, as if ARBRE want to say: “My shoulders will be rivers; I belong to the world, and the world belongs to me. We are everything that we are.”

“Mes épaules seront rivières” is an introspective piece that, above all, celebrates the beauty of self-acceptance.

– Sonia Loenne