Every week, our music journalists add songs to La Presse’s playlist on Spotify. Here are three recent titles that are in our selection.

In 2021, the most popular of the Gros Quatre groups launched The Metallica Blacklist, which brought together no less than 53 covers imagined by other artists of the 12 songs included on its legendary black album. But this collection certainly did not contain a version of The Unforgiven as spellbinding as the one, in Inuktitut, revealed this week by Elisapie (and which allowed her to carve out a place on the platforms of Rolling Stone magazine). Could the singer perform it in August with the four metal veterans during their visit to the Stadium? Elisapie already has, in any case, a kind of connection with the guitarist Kirk Hammett, whom she interviewed on the airwaves of the radio station of Salluit, TNI, when she was only 15 years old. We can’t wait for this piece of archives to be unearthed!

Always drooling, Marie-Gold returns with a second extract in anticipation of her next album, Retour à baveuse city, which will be released on July 7. On Banque de beats mondial, the rapper presents herself as a machine for producing music, a “cash cow” of queb rap. She connects the fast and sharp flows on an obscure beat signed Fifo, embellishing the whole of the determination that we know her. Marie-Gold will take part in the Laval National Day show on June 24.

Jean-François Branchaud is the one who carries the first song of the next disc of La Bottine Souriante, unveiled at the approach of the national holiday. It is called Les jolies Québécoises (a somewhat curious choice in our time) and is part of the tradition of humorous songs. It puts forward the jazzy trad sound that we know, but with a renewed swing.