Munya

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Ostensibly the full-length debut of Munya, aka Quebecois musician Josie Boivin, Munya collects the project's first three EPs. Each named for a place that holds significance for Boivin, her debut, North Hatley, was named for a village in Quebec, second EP Delmano refers to the Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Blue Pine is the mountain range in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. The first two EPs were issued separately in 2018, while Blue Pine shares its 2019 release date with the set. With a style that combines the woozy indie pop of contemporaries like Yumi Zouma, Hoops, and Barrie with vintage influences including ye-ye, Munya intensifies the gauzy dreaminess of her sound with vocals that are often processed with filters and echo and sometimes double-tracked. Further, half of the songs are in English and half are in Boivin's native French (closer "Hatley" is an instrumental). The opener, "Des Bisous Partout," is a French-language tune from the North Hatley EP. It introduces Boivin's airy, sighing vocals ("Donne-moi des bisous, des bisous partout" -- "Give me some kisses, kisses everywhere") over spacy synths and dance-friendly drum loops. Elsewhere, the more uptempo "Hotel Delmano" begins with a flourish before settling into similarly plated organ voices and soft synth timbres under Boivin's melancholy, harmonized melody. (Its chorus consists entirely of "ahs".) Consistently plush, mechanical, dreamlike, and nostalgic at once, the album is unlikely to cause many to bat an eyelash at the track title and lyrics "If I'm Gone Tomorrow (It's Because of Aliens)" by the time it arrives two-thirds of the way through. Though the sequencing appears random when compared to the EPs, Munya plays like a cohesive album, one well-suited to set on repeat and soundtrack an afternoon of pleasing reverie. ~ Marcy Donelson