Marie William

Tout un Monde
by Michael McCarthy

Marie William‘s Tout un Monde (a Canadian release) unites high-pitched vocals with electronic textures and dance beats with mostly pleasant results. Her voice is so potent, it’s hard to believe she’s not an opera singer and, as if to drive that point home, there’s actually a song entitled “Opéra” in which she gets to sing the lyric “je suis Opéra” (I am opera). A bit tacky, but the rest of the disc will either make you feel like dancing or as though you’re traveling through the stars, which seems to be a bit of a theme and the whole thing does have something of a New Age vibe. Sarah Brightman meets Enya meets Massive Attack. As remixed by Hex Hector.