Couteau Papillon

About

The artist

Couteau Papillon is the solo music project of Montréal composer, songwriter, performer, and producer Philippe Lachance. The project appeared on record with Archipel in 2013, a French-language album composed, recorded, and produced by Lachance with vocal and instrumental contributions from Linda Luttinger, Sara Breitkreutz, Sasha Brunelle, Joëlle Saint-Pierre, and Laurent Ménard. Its songs combined alternative pop and folk-rock writing with syncopated guitars, vocal harmony, mythology, and surreal imagery. Beginning in September 2015, Couteau Papillon released a new song each month with a distinct illustration through a Patreon-supported process; those recordings became Noirs corridors in December of that year. In Silico followed in 2018, widening the project's electronic and indie-pop palette, while the English-language Doubts EP arrived through a sequence of songs completed between 2019 and 2021. Artist-controlled Bandcamp credits consistently place Lachance at the centre as writer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and mixer while documenting recurring collaborators. The canonical Apple Music and Spotify profiles identify the same Montréal project and carry a 2025 single, confirming current catalog activity. Couteau Papillon remains a distinct professional artist identity for Lachance rather than a separate unrelated group.