Marcus Vinicius’s review of the albumNotre‐Dame‐des‐Sept‐Douleurs

This feels like such a huge record - in the sense that it overflow us with its melodies sheer power - I don't know much about Klo Pelgag, outside the fact that she made a great chamber pop album back in 2016 - and here she is again - in comparison Notre-Dame feels like a more... classic album. "L'etoile thoracique" worked under a quirkier template, filled with indisiocracies and colorful indie mannerisms, but here, she bursts the door open with a swooping set of strings that towers above the songs in a classic Baroque way, golden melodies and a solid rhythmic session, right from the beginning "Rémora" feels monumental and strikes us with its power, following suit there's also gorgeous piano ballads like "J'aurai", also displaying the power of her angular vocals, with a more cinematic tone - and where she goes the strings follows, constructing an hermetic world where everything seems laden with cascating violins, cellos, harps and trumpets surrounding you, a constant orchestra following your every thought - but never being overtly saccharine on its usage of them, there's always something to balance our attention to the strings, be the agile and inventive songwriting and strong hooks (anyone who can make a hook in a language I don't understand latch into my mind has a win in my book), her peculiar and distinctive vocals giving off a more playful, slightly surreal tone or a few more experimental production tricks, be adopting glowing synthesizers or employing ominous ambient passages. For how grandiouse and immense it sounds, I was expecting to this to crumble on its own ambition at some point, to get overwhelming - but no, she maintains the level throughout, flooding all of the songs with a obfuscating variety of elements, amping them all the way up and pulling off the most maximalist production and arrangements she can, progressing the songs structures into an almost chaotic fashion at times, overflowing us, but never overwhelming to the tiring point, because of how thoroughly creative, exciting and bold all of the album sounds. A crowning achievement in emotive, infinitely lush art-baroque pop, enchanting in every way imaginable.