VIDEO: Coeur de Pirate returns with Blonde

Since releasing her self-titled debut abum in 2008, pop chanteuse and pianist Coeur de Pirate has beenat the centre of a whirlwind of concerts, international touring, promotion, award shows and, finally, songwriting for a new album.

The Montreal singer, born Beatrice Martin, is now back with her sophomore release, Blonde. It's an album that speaks to the different relationshipsromantic and otherwise she experienced in the past few momentous years.

Though she had garnered acclaim and a French-speaking fan base with 2008's Coeur de Pirate, the singer was playing a few folk festivals across Canada this summer when she discovered to her delight that her music had crossed over.

"Most of these kids don't even know French. I had them come up to me and say 'We really like what we do. We learned how to translate your songs because we're so into them,'" she told Radio-Canada'sKevin Sweet.

Martin recalled being just a teen when French-language indie rock band Malajube releasedits 2004debut Le Compte complet and thinking"French music is cool now.I can do this too, this is actually interesting," she said.

"There was this huge wave of people starting to sing in French. [They were]actually starting their own bands and importing whatever they were listening to and making that into their own, while singing in French.I think that is great. That's what I'm doing, too. I'm not gonna lie:I have tons of inspiration and I'm just trying to put them all together and do it in French because it is a beautiful language."