Kris Angelis - Le Sigh (2025) Hi-Res

Carmel based singer/songwriter Kris Angelis has produced her sixth and most accomplished record yet in the playful, heartfelt, autobiographical Le Sigh.

The initial track, “Dear Me,” is a letter to her past younger self from the present, a prelude to these 10 tracks, which form an interior conversation in a universe whose imagery unspools like a film. “It’s a little bit of making fun of myself for being so dramatic,” she admits as to why she picked the title to name the album. “I tend to find the humor to deflect even the most heart-wrenching sentiment. All of the songs kind of have that feeling, a deep, self-centering sigh. Going through these painful experiences are all part of my growth as a person and artist.”

A focus cut, “Goodbye Captain Fantastic,” is both a bittersweet nod to the Elton John album and a ballad about love, memory and the quiet aftermath of a farewell letter to a former partner – soulful, intimate and full of emotional color. Other notable songs from the album include the bluesy, Bonnie Raitt strains of “Is That You?” another song of lost love and ghostly presences and the title track, an atmospheric song that offers the tongue-in-cheek tale of a doomed romantic triangle, the aural equivalent of Francois Truffaut’s French nouvelle vague classic, Jules and Jim.