| Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest (Nov. 17th, 2017) |
Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest (Nov. 17th, 2017)
• Rest took seven years to come out, its long gestation fuelled by grief, and the finished product is nothing short of cathartic. The British~French singer has evolved as an artist, and Rest is a flawed but worthy statement. Charlotte Gainsbourg has been famous in France since before she could walk, and yet she carries the weight of all those expectations as gracefully as a Birkin bag, which are named, incidentally, after her mother, Jane Birkin.
© Charlotte Gainsbourg. Photo credit: Charley Gallay
Birthname: Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg
Nationality: French
Born: July 21 1971
Location: London, England
Album release: Nov. 17th, 2017
Record Label: Because Music
Styles: French Pop/Nouvelle Chanson/French/Western European Traditions
Runtime: 48:30
Tracks:
01. Ring~a~Ring O’ Roses 4:29
02. Lying with You 3:19
03. Kate 3:41
04. Deadly Valentine 6:05
05. I’m a Lie 3:29
06. Rest 3:39
07. Sylvia Says 4:28
08. Songbird in a Cage 4:33
09. Dans vos airs 3:33
10. Les crocodiles 3:17
11. Les oxalis 7:57
℗ 2017 Because Music LC33186
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Rest review — musical chameleon finds her voice.
Ben Beaumont~Thomas, 16 November 2017 22.00 GMT / Score: ****
• Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album is the first she’s written the lyrics for, and, perhaps as a result, gives her voice its broadest palette yet as she tries on different roles: child, ingenue, diarist, diva. There’s creepy nursery rhyme on Ring~a~Ring O’Roses, classic French chanson on Lying With You, trippy sprechgesang on Songbird in a Cage (guest~written by Paul McCartney in full acid mode: “flying through the sky, all our senses reeling”), and disco on Deadly Valentine and Sylvia Says. A few of the melodies that she and producer SebastiAn alight on resolve too neatly, running their course as predictably as a romcom. Equally, it is this firm resolution that makes Les Oxalis and the title track so satisfying — and the latter is the best thing she’s ever done. With a funk bassline muffled as if by goosedown, she finds the heretofore untapped erotic potential of Aled Jones’s Walking in the Air, whose lyrics she quotes in an ASMR~triggering whisper. • https://www.theguardian.com/
Also:
BY WREN GRAVES ON NOVEMBER 14, 2017, 6:00AM / Score: B–
• https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/11/album-review-charlotte-gainsbourg-rest/
By Ellen Peirson~Hagger, Nov 15, 2017 / Score: Author rating: 8/10
• http://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/charlotte_gainsbourg_rest
Website: http://charlottegainsbourg.fr/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/charlottegainsbourg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlottegainsbourg
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| Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest (Nov. 17th, 2017) |
Birthname: Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg
Nationality: French
Born: July 21 1971
Location: London, England
Album release: Nov. 17th, 2017
Record Label: Because Music
Styles: French Pop/Nouvelle Chanson/French/Western European Traditions
Runtime: 48:30
Tracks:
01. Ring~a~Ring O’ Roses 4:29
02. Lying with You 3:19
03. Kate 3:41
04. Deadly Valentine 6:05
05. I’m a Lie 3:29
06. Rest 3:39
07. Sylvia Says 4:28
08. Songbird in a Cage 4:33
09. Dans vos airs 3:33
10. Les crocodiles 3:17
11. Les oxalis 7:57
℗ 2017 Because Music LC33186
Ben Beaumont~Thomas, 16 November 2017 22.00 GMT / Score: ****
• Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album is the first she’s written the lyrics for, and, perhaps as a result, gives her voice its broadest palette yet as she tries on different roles: child, ingenue, diarist, diva. There’s creepy nursery rhyme on Ring~a~Ring O’Roses, classic French chanson on Lying With You, trippy sprechgesang on Songbird in a Cage (guest~written by Paul McCartney in full acid mode: “flying through the sky, all our senses reeling”), and disco on Deadly Valentine and Sylvia Says. A few of the melodies that she and producer SebastiAn alight on resolve too neatly, running their course as predictably as a romcom. Equally, it is this firm resolution that makes Les Oxalis and the title track so satisfying — and the latter is the best thing she’s ever done. With a funk bassline muffled as if by goosedown, she finds the heretofore untapped erotic potential of Aled Jones’s Walking in the Air, whose lyrics she quotes in an ASMR~triggering whisper. • https://www.theguardian.com/
Also:
BY WREN GRAVES ON NOVEMBER 14, 2017, 6:00AM / Score: B–
• https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/11/album-review-charlotte-gainsbourg-rest/
By Ellen Peirson~Hagger, Nov 15, 2017 / Score: Author rating: 8/10
• http://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/charlotte_gainsbourg_rest
Website: http://charlottegainsbourg.fr/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/charlottegainsbourg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlottegainsbourg