Margaux Bouchegnies, aka Margaux, is a singer-songwriter from Seattle, though currently working out of Brooklyn. With help from producer Sahil Ansari (Slow Dakota, JW Francis), as well as friends (and friends of friends) like Reid Jenkins (Morningsiders) and Willem DeKoch (The Westerlies), Margaux finished her debut EP this summer, and is set to put it out with Massif Records next month.
To give a taste as to what to expect, Margaux has released single ‘Palm’. Written during a time when “the line between unconditional love and care for a friend felt blurred by romantic feelings,” the song combines a casual conversational croon with something a little more dreamy, the vocals pitched somewhere between Adrianne Lenker and Haley Heynderickx. The relaxed opening sets the tone, an impish vibe pulling at the corners of the languid rhythm, and soon the track gathers pace.
However, rather than racing ever more quickly to the close, Margaux instead pulls the rug from under the track, a brief moment of silence heralding an evolution of the sound. Gone is the skippy percussion, thrown headlong into a syrupy dreamscape where everything is half paced. The dichotomy serves to bring to the life to duality of people too, as though beneath the outward face of our feelings lies depth more expansive and strange, and more sincere too.
I am falling in the palm of your hand
Feeling like I’m underwater
My breath no longer andWhen you look at me I
Hold my tongue
Worried that I’ll say the wrong thing
You’re all I’m longing to show what
