JF Robitaille

www.myspace.com/jfrobitaille



JF ROBITAILLE is a singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec. He has just finished recording his debut solo album with HOWARD BILERMAN (The Arcade Fire, The Dears, Godspeed) and BRIAN PAULSON (Beck, Wilco, Superchunk) at the Hotel2Tango studios in Montreal, of the 18 tracks recorded, 6 have been released as an EP entitled THE BLOOD IN MY BODY in the U.S. (RHYTHMBANK RECORDS) and Canada (SONIC UNYON).



People should really stop complaining about the state of music and pick up the debut EP from this Montreal-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
- 4/5 STARS HOUR MAGAZINE (MONTREAL)



The EP is a six-song collection of breezy, invigorating musical enlightenment, and each track is like downing an ice-cold glass of lemonade that immediately evokes a short, but sweet, state of pastoral daydreaming.
- 4/5 STARS SEE MAGAZINE (EDMONTON)



A brilliant songwriter.
-CBC RADIO 3



Both the pristine pop tunes and slow-bop ballads are clean and simple, and their light orchestration, pretty harmonies and pleasant melodies are contrasted by often dark, even depressed lyrics, a great device in the right hands, from Del Shannon to Morrissey to Robitaille.
-8/10 MONTREAL MIRROR



Over fourteen minutes of near perfection .THE BLOOD IN MY BODY is one of the best records I have heard in a long time.
-QUITE LIGHT (CALGARY)



Lyrically sincere and utterly charming. JF Robitaille could rise to be a Cohen for the new age; but with optimism, melody and a prettier voice.
-EXCLAIM MAGAZINE



Audaciously catchy, lyrically loaded and penetrating, this elegiac set of songs are the sweet proof of an elegant marriage of poetry and refined folk.
-SIXEYES



...crafting beautifully restrained, intelligent pop songs like those he's released on his long-awaited The Blood In My Body EP (out on New York label Rhythmbank Entertainment). Poetic but strikingly masculine.
- NOW MAGAZINE (Toronto)



Folk at its finest!
-I HEART MUSIC



Exceeds all expectaions for a new artist.
-SONGS ILLINOIS



A great songwriter who sounds nothing like today, and more like yesterday and the future at the same time.
-EARFOOD



Imagine docile singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, except with a book of Leonard Cohen poems in his hands, not a surfboard. Add a dash of indie-pop whimsy, and you have Montreal-born, Brooklyn-based Robitaille, a buzz artist for 2007.
-THE GLOBE AND MAIL.