Cécile #[nn]

The warm salmon tones of this La Boîte à Bulles release set an immediately intimate mood — a young woman tends the bar of a quiet café while a cup of black coffee sits waiting in the foreground, sketched in Benoît Springer's clean, unhurried line work. Séverine Lambour and Springer launch Cécile with a subtitle — Charmante — that feels like both a promise and a gentle irony. It's the kind of opening volume that invites you to pull up a barstool and stay a while.