Montreal’s Ariane Brunet had a respectable career as a singer-songwriter under her own name, baring her soul over three albums of earnest indie pop. Then she filed it all away and became someone else entirely. Brunet first introduced her next act, L’Isle, in 2019 with a breezy synth-pop cover of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”—minimalist and a bit more playful, but no less sensual. Made with an array of beatmakers and producers, her full-length debut, Soif (“thirst”), is the fully formed dance-pop statement she was working toward over the last few years. “Vanille” is a whispered disco-funk ode to a lover who has her melting like ice cream on a summer day. “Nirvana” is not a tribute to the grunge gods but a bittersweet, deceptively beautiful lament for a teenage girl selling her body to survive. At the outset of album closer “Rien promis,” a dramatic, slow-building torch song steeped in gospel-tinged soul, L’Isle lays it all on the line: “It’s true, you promised me nothing”—a fitting finale for her full-scale reinvention.