Marianne, whom we love dearly and has been featured a lot on this blog, has recorded a great version of Le Temps de l’amour (orig by Francoise Hardy). It starts pretty true to the original, but then hear what happens.
Monthly Archives: November 2020
La Belle Vie
Quintet, making cool pop music with yacht rock elements and modern influcences. EP has just been released. This single, oh la la
Gillian Hills
All of a sudden, like an unexpected Christmas gift, there’s a new song by yeye-legend Gillian Hills. Turns out she’s been releasing songs quietly over the past year. Follow her on Facebook.
Melodie Lauret
Between poetry and chanson, there’s Melodie Lauret. She’s in the same league als Grand Corps Malade.
Julia Jean-Baptiste
A very VERY fine song about confinement in a yacht rock style. Super cool tune
Vanille
A new, very fine single by Vanille. Reminds me of The Sundays and other dreampop bands from the early 90s. Which is nice.
Clean Pete
Clean Pete are sisters Loes and Renée, who mostly sing in Dutch. For their new album, they translated their favourite English and French language songs to Dutch. Tracks by Velvet Underground, Belle & Sebastian, Sugababes. And they translated Quelqu’un m’a dit by Carla Bruni into Er is mij verteld.
Mandeville & Bélanger
Gorgeous duet between the crystal clear Amélie Mandeville and Canadian music veteran Daniel Bélanger.
Rosier
I had never heard of Rosier, a 5-piece from Montreal, who dab in Canadian folk music but in this single, they take a more sunshine pop-influenced route. Which is nice. An inspirations playlist on Spotify contains Elliot Smith, Bedouine, Nick Drake and Daniel Belanger.