Part pop singer, part pop artist, the francophone Quebec performer Pierre Lapointe splits the difference between chanteur Léo Ferré and Peter Gabriel. After releasing his self-titled debut in 2004, Lapointe transformed an ambitious stage production about a mutant's quest for happiness into the album Sentiments humains. The thin line between love and death later informed his albums La forêt des mal-aimés and Punkt. Lapointe translates the chanson tradition into rich, melancholic pop.