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Alexiane Releases New EP Bad Sounds and Promises to Be Anything But

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Alexiane Photo Credit Phanie Éthier
Alexiane Photo Credit Phanie Éthier
Fri Jul 10, 2020
Cashbox Canada

With more than 41+ million streams across platforms — including her chart-rising breakthrough hit “A Million on My Soul” — Canadian alt-pop singer/songwriter and producer Alexiane has ushered a new six-track EP to the table; Bad Sounds.

“We all have different demons to face,” Alexiane says of her music and the new release. “Music is the best way I know to look those demons in the eye. For me, advancing is writing, and fighting is creating.”

Born in Montmagny, Quebec to a Senegalese father and Canadian mother, Alexiane is no stranger to shuttling between Montreal and Senegal, in West Africa, soaking up the Afro-Latin, French, and North American soundscape along the way. With her style self-described as “dark, cinematic pop with African undertones” and her alumni stacking as UCLA’s Music Business & Music Production, Bad Sounds serves as a good showcase for the multi-faceted, emotively astute artist’s breadth of talent.

“Although I have always had a shy and reserved temperament, all the challenges of life pushed me at a very early age to sing and write lyrics and melodies from a personal perspective. It helped me overcome life’s challenges.”

Packed with unflinching honesty and a knack for finding hope in the darkest of places, Bad Sounds serves as an aperitif of sorts, set to both tease and ease earnest ears as an introduction ahead of her 2021 album, Into the Sun; the forthcoming full-length — slated for co-production by Carla Bruni alongside Alexiane under the Montreal-based artist's label Gion Records — will feature all six songs from Bad Sounds.

There’s an ode to courage and confidence in “Soldier” — complete with a self-produced video made solely on her phone. There’s a stunning duet with Malian singer Salif Keita to be found in “Gold.”

Watch and listen to “Soldier ” here:

And also not to be missed: a stripped, laid-bare revisit of “A Million on My Soul” — her 2017 single featured in Luc Besson’s blockbuster film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets that holds 24+ million streams on YouTube plus 8.5+ million more on Spotify, and growing.

For more visit:
alexianemusic.com/
instagram.com/alexianemusic/?hl=fr
facebook.com/alexianemusic/
twitter.com/alexianemusic https://open.spotify.com/album/1uNA78VJJEhBjhpnVS993i?si=O79rYASfQi2o6q6O-0qJUw
open.spotify.com/track/6PPGaWLKRoRJ3JVbu1bbOM?si=R4Att8HvQ16zDZYiIQ7qow

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