Review: French-Canadian songwriter MUNYA shares her strongest collection to date in Blue Pine EP

Josie Boivin, aka MUNYA, has one of those rare voices in pop music as it is both joyful and lugubrious in equal measure. The grain of her voice can be seen as more significant than the words she sings as it contains a lilting quality which can be read as offering a sense of despair, yet some degree of hope and optimism remain. Sustained vocal notes regularly descend a semi-tone to further this sense of disquiet, revealing a deeper emotional sense which is perhaps masked behind the shimmering dre...