Mélanie Pain - How and Why (2025)

There’s a case to be made that the English language has been exhausted in terms of creating melodies. Maybe that’s true. Maybe the timbre of this language only has so many corners to turn as it stitches melodies together. But, on the winter winds of her folk landscape, Mélanie Pain allows the melodies to be blown East, using the influence of her French language to compelling sonic effect on an album that showcases her versatility as a melody writer.