Ma Fleur

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TCO return with their first full-length since 2002’s EVERYDAY. MA FLEUR was writen as the soundtrack to a specially commisioned screenplay for an imagined film, which may or may not yet be made. Dealign with themes of loss and love, MA FLEUR is fertile ground for Jason Swinscoe’s brand of raw-emotion music making. If the mood is melancholy, Swinscoe and company manage to make it an ultimately uplifting experience, perhaps in the end more about the love you find then the love you lose.

Cinematic Orchestra’s fourth studio album, Ma Fleur soars from start to finish. The disc opens with the all-too-brief “That Home” which showcases a new guest vocalist brought into the Orchestra clan, Montreal native Patrick Watson whose Coldplay-meets-Jeff-Buckley fragility fits inside the folds of the sparse melody perfectly; his contribution to the sweeping soundscape of closer “To Build a Home” proves equally spectacular, addi