Honestly, Adèle Castillon hasn’t released a single under her own name that is as classic as Vidéoclub’s Enfance 80 or Amour Plastique, but the new track is getting there:

This blog champions French songs from all over the world, but since we’re based in Les Pays-Bas, we do keep an extra ear open for Dutch singers. This week, probably because of the start of le Tour de France, three strong tracks were released:

Tess Merlot was featured a few times here. Rien à perdre is a song about ‘battling your insecurities, and finding motivation to make life-changing decisions’, in her own words.

Dafne Holtland was part of trio Zazi, is now half of Kafka. With Zazi, she sang in French (also in other languages), kaleidoscope-pop duo Kafka was all English. Until now (yay!). The ‘Etienne’ in the song is a name Dafne saw carved in a workbench, in a house on the French countryside she stayed in. Her imagination started flowing, this is the song that came out:

And finally, Katell Chevalier. She debuts on this blog, though she’s a French force in Holland for a while now. She’s quite different from the sultry French singers we usually post here. This is her ode to women:

Singer/songwriter Waxx has an online show on Amazon, where he covers songs with famous, mostly French artists. I’d never heard of Waxx or the show (sorry) when suddenly his gentile Dalida cover with Pomme popped up. It’s lovely. Find more covers (with Coeur de Pirata, Iliona, Emilie Simon etc) on his Instagram or YouTube.

The 14th Edition of the yearly summer songs playlist (and stubbornly, not changing the title, which SHOULD read L’été parfait, of course). New tracks by Alice & Moi, Voyou, Tess Merlot, Nicolas Michaux, Zephir, Clair, Comment Debord, and a lot more. Link to playlist HERE

Super sultry summer song:

A staple on this blog, French/American duo Bruce & Marie, aka Freedom Fry. They just released an EP with French-language summer jams. Funky tunes for late-night rooftop dancing. Style-wise you hear soulful Beegees, disco-France Gall and chill-out Daft Punk (in La Parapluie).

Synthified popsongs by a French duo – just can’t get enough. Alas, no video (yet), but this duet is just lovely:

Tip from FS-contributor Marc/Maks: This cool cover of TC Matic’s Elle Adore Le Noir:

And then this comes along. Sultry, sexy, Gainsbourgian strings, slow. Sarah Espour is a Belgian singer with a deep love for cinema.

Danceable post-punk, been a while since we posted that on this blog. From Montréal I give you the female-led La Sécurité. New album coming in June.