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Artist
Simone Pitot
4+ albums
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about
It’s strange to think that only a few years ago, Simone Pitot had almost shelved music indefinitely to pursue a corporate career. Whilst studying a double degree in arts-law, she would sometimes go for months without even touching her guitar. To everyone around her, she seemed all but ready to swap her song writing for power-suits and shoulder pads. That was until out of the blue, Simone’s sister Madeleine—who she had always turned to as a sounding board for songs—passed away. “It shook me to think that with every opportunity I had, I was moulding myself into a corporate ant,” Simone says now. Things, she decided, had to change. Though Simone didn’t know it at the time, that dark period of loss, relationship catastrophes and personal reassessment — what she now describes as “an embarrassment of tragedy” — would eventually trigger off a major creative sea change. Over the next few years, Simone got down to business, trained herself in opera and classical voice, and started writing music properly again, ditching the call of the 9-to-5 office salary. The result is her debut EP which is, at turns, heartbreaking and hilarious, intelligent and complicated, sinister and sweet, and finds vintage instruments colliding with synth beats. Though Simone was never going to write an angst-ridden document of tragedy and despair, what’s most surprising about the EP is its unapologetic optimism. All of this makes for a complex pop record, announcing the sounds of a new, original and unmista
