New, very beautiful Clariza single:
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Naima Frank
Sulty soulful sounds from Montréal, by Naima Frank. Third single this year of Naima, the others had a more pop/dancefloor feel. Also nice.
Ronnie
Every now and then, the Spotify algorithm gives you beautiful songs. Like this very laidback track by Ronnie. Who takes inspiration from Clairo, Cigarettes after Sex, Françoise Hardy and (maybe) Francis Lai. Can you name all the sights in this video:
Also very nice, this duet
Colt
Duo Colt (Antoine Jorissen, Coline Debry) started as a cover band, and transformed in an electronic pop stronghold, with musical links to anything between UK garage, industrial and (of course) Elli & Jacno.
Here are some examples, the new album is just out:
Melanie Pain
Senden Daha Güzel by Duman is a certified Turkish rock classic (93 million streams on Spotify, tons of coverversions on YouTube). It’s a very dedicated love song, and French singer Melanie Pain (who performed with Nouvelle Vague in Turkey several times) made a cool cover. In Turkish, and in French.
Anais MVA
Two recent Anais MVA singles that I missed, sexy slabs of modern pop:
Pomme
New Pomme single. Needs to be on this blog:
François & Yasmine
When François Marry, driving force behind François & The Atlas Mountains, was in preparation of the Âge Fleuve album, he listened to a lot of river-themed songs. Like Take Me To The River by Talking Heads (or better, Al Green) and La Rivière by Olivier Marguerit. The one river-song that stood out, was River Man by tragic folkhero Nick Drake, he writes on instagram. I’m always envious of people who haven’t heard of Nick, for discovering his music, his legacy, is such a bittersweet joy (he died very young, alas, but he made at least three albums that are masterpieces).
Longstoryshort: François translated River Man to French, and asked singer Yasmine Hamdan to join him on his wonderful rework.
If you want more River Man-covers, I made a playlist with over 4 hours of versions.
Charlotte Cardin
It’s pop, sure. It has a firm beat. But it also has that voice. Charlotte Cardin delivers yet another very strong song, that makes you jump up & dance, and cry. Sad banger, anyone?