Margaux

Margaux (born Margaux Bouchegnies) is a singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia, PA. Born to a French father and an American mother, Margaux grew up in Seattle. She picked up guitar first, then upright bass, and began writing songs inspired by Motown, Pixies, and Dirty Projectors. Bass in hand, she moved across the country to study jazz at the New School in Manhattan. Bouchegnies later switched into the writing program, where she graduated with a degree in poetry and non-fiction.

She first performed original material as “Margaux” early in 2018, at a DIY show in Brooklyn. Although she was a virtual unknown at the time, her short set caught the attention of producer Sahil Ansari, as well as PJ Sauerteig of Massif Records. Sauerteig still remembers being awestruck at that first show: “Two or three songs in, everyone in the audience was looking around at each other, wide-eyed and aware that we were witnessing pure, timeless talent. The songwriting was just divine.”

The next year, Massif Records released Margaux’s debut EP, “More Brilliant is the Hand that Throws the Coin” to instant critical acclaim: Pitchfork called it “uncannily wise and self-assured” (with a 7.8 rating), and booked Margaux for its Chicago festival that summer. In 2023, Margaux and Ansari returned to the studio to record “Everlasting Snow” and “Maple’s Loom”–a couplet inspired by the life and work of Emily Dickinson. Margaux’s background in poetry shines through in her lyrics, which are equal parts coy and crushing. Margaux is also an in-demand bass player: over the past few years, she’s recorded and toured with indie acts like Katy Kirby and Dougie Poole. 

“Inside the Marble” is Margaux’s first full-length studio LP. The album is her most mature and inspired work to date–at times breathlessly intimate, at other times sweeping and orchestral. Although the album navigates heartbreak through songs like “Ships” and “DNA,” it is more than a breakup album. Margaux also wrestles with the anxieties of how we grow up and build a life of our own. How we teeter between confrontation and avoidance (in “Dissolve / Resolve”) and end up hiding behind the boundaries we’ve drawn (in “What Could I Say?”).

In Margaux’s own words: “The album’s common thread is really about making sense of big feelings. I do love songwriting as a craft but I think a lot of the time it is something I turn to amidst a spike in emotion, whether that is rooted in heartbreak, dread, feelings of love, or angst… these things can feel so unruly inside. Writing these songs has helped me gain a sense of direction and clarity in moments that have otherwise felt like complete internal chaos.” In that sense, the album’s title refers not only to its cloudy, rolling vortex of indecision and fear–it also refers (somewhat tongue in cheek) to the idea of “losing ones marbles.” On nights surrounded by tangled cables and piling laundry, these ten songs gave Margaux a reason to pull through the worst pangs of heartache and post-graduate dread.

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