[Le Soleil] “Standing Under Bright Lights” Review

As published in Le Soleil

Standing Under Bright Lights
****
Indie-rock
Alex Henry Foster

To enter the live album Standing Under Bright Lights is to offer one a mesmerizing experience. The fact that this communion in venues has been forbidden for over a year now does weigh in, but ever so slightly. Recorded in 2019 in a sold-out Club Soda, the connection between Foster and the audience strongly echoes. The singer-songwriter and his partners in crime play the entirety of the very personal album Windows in the Sky, composed through the painful grief of his late father. In our headphones, without any visual presentation, the event feels vibrant, it grips you, even. In those songs that take flight at their own pace, in those loops that come back like mantras, in this voice that is fully invested — in both its intensity and fragility — the obvious is clear: the absentees were wrong. Again.

GENEVIÈVE BOUCHARD
April 17, 2021