Grand Eugène, the Quebecois duo of Melyssa Lemieux and Jeremy Lachance, navigate seamlessly between the rush of creation and the quiet spaces of memories too delicate to voice. Their debut album, Deux places au cimetière, reveals an agile indie rock spirit, shifting fluidly with emotion - gentle in its languor, yet piercing in its gaze.

Melyssa and Jeremy’s paths are as intertwined as the threads of a ball of yarn, tracing their way through CEGEP classrooms, Montreal apartments, and the open roads of western Canada. When their collaborative project took form in 2023 with a self-titled debut EP, their vision was already clear: to craft an indie sound with a dreamlike quality, carried by Melyssa’s whispered vocals and Jeremy’s lush, intuitive arrangements.

Several of their songs, including “Celle-là” and “Danser,” quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of streams, capturing the attention of music lovers on both sides of the Atlantic and marking Grand Eugène as one of Quebec’s most promising emerging acts. In 2024, the duo released their second mini-album, Les vacances d’été, and brought their music to stages across Quebec (FEQ, Francos, Santa Teresa, FME) and France, where they performed a five-date tour and appeared at festivals such as Avec le temps and Bars en Trans.

Deux places au cimetière marks Grand Eugène’s full-length debut, a raw, almost grunge-tinged evolution of their indie sound. Here, they reinterpret the language of love songs with playful irony, flirting with kitsch and layering a dry sense of humor over their sharp, intimate ballads.

The album is the product of unstoppable creative momentum: demos captured in Saint-Hugues, Montreal, Paris, and even Jeremy’s old van - sometimes recorded on the corner of a table with nothing more than a laptop mic and a speaker.

Like a flower growing on a tombstone, their music blooms everywhere, soothing broken hearts and breathing life into even the most fleeting moments.