Apple, poetry in our hearts

LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Indra Crittin | If Claire Pommet, aka Pomme, is rightly described as a singer-songwriter, think of her more as a watercolorist. For her latest musical project, her pen - well, her paintbrush - was bathed in a sea of tears, an ocean of uncertainty. What she portrays is based on the transparency of her emotions - a palette of authentic colors. The artist from Lyon shares her lack of self-confidence, her fear of death, and her other experiences in a way that allows us to identify with her, while developing our own interpretation of her work. No wonder her work is minimalist: few layers of paint are needed for the light to reflect. The woman who was deeply influenced by Barbara, the lady in black, and who began to make a name for herself with YouTube covers, now takes us into her poetic world, at once dark and luminous. Her latest travel diary? A (final) reissue of her second album, «Les Failles», voted Album révélation at the 2020 Victoires de la musique awards. A far cry from her first album, which was A peu ce qu'elle voulait, this opus bears witness to her fully assumed artistic choices. Let's chat with this gifted young artist, who desacralizes taboos and writes magnificent love songs.