“We’re All Lost” finds Audren stepping back into the spotlight with the calm authority of someone who’s walked through fire and learned how to turn the heat into song. A fiercely intuitive French-based artist with deep roots in indie pop, jazz, and neo-soul, she’s spent years crafting music “for musicians,” collaborating with world-class players and even seeing a video-game character modeled after her. After illness forced her away from the mic and into a bestselling writing career, she’s returned to music with renewed purpose. She’s back to soothe, challenge, and audibly heal.
“We’re All Lost” zooms in on a world stunned by chaos and manipulation, where people run on autopilot, pretending they’re fine while feeling anything but. Her answer, though, is not panic—it’s love, in all directions.
The song has soothing piano playing and the singer has soothing, evocative, expressive and rich, thick voice. She sings slow and elegantly. The drums tap softly and the guitar plays gently. At first, it’s almost like overhearing a private confession at a late-night bar, just piano and voice sharing the same wounded air. As the track unfolds, fretless bass slides in with a warm, singing tone, while the guitar and piano begin to “talk” to each other like old friends trading wisdom. Subtle jazz inflections creep into the harmonies. Everything is designed to make space for her words.
Gradually, the song opens up, morphing into a gentle conversation between Audren, the band, and a distant choir that answers her like a soft crowd of ghosts and guardians. You can sense the improvisational freedom she and producer/guitarist Chris Rime encouraged—little flares of spontaneity that keep the performance alive and breathing.
By the time she leads us onto that “road of love,” the track lights a lantern, to convey us to the direction of thought where we realize that even if we’re all a bit lost, we don’t have to walk in the dark alone.
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Review by: Naomi Joan