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Sainte Victoire sounds and resonates like a religious allegory. Nothing surprising about that. This young Parisian artist, author, composer, performer and producer, received a Jesuit Catholic education, which she hastened to sacrifice on the altar of her first artistic desires by composing bawdy songs. And you can't make it up. At thirteen years old, her very first song was called “Jeune Pucelle” (“Young Virgin”).
Sainte Victoire has classical and baroque training – she spent ten years playing the harpsichord at the Conservatoire, from six to sixteen years old – and she likes to be off the beaten tracks. The handful of incandescent singles already released gave a glimpse of her singular personality’s contours: in the confessions of a one-sided love in “Only A Friend” and its nebulous synths (2021), in its hymn to solitude chanted under the Angelus bells introducing the tribal trance of “Hive Mind” (2021), in the vengeful spirit that reigns throughout “Empty” and its industrial beats (2022) as in the pop-electronic reverie of the ballad in tandem “Toute la Nuit” (2023) that had the chance to be playlisted in Spotify’s EQUAL.
Her first EP “Cold Feet (How You Food-Poisoned Me)” builds bridges between industrial techno, gabber, hyperpop, neo folk, hip-hop, 70s kitsch but also... baroque. An explosive mixture that ultimately resembles her.
