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.

Belgian drummer/singer Isolde teams up with fellow Belgian Daan, in this very Gainsbourgian percussion spectacle:

Live-version

From Switzerland, Gina’s called ‘the Swiss answer to Björk’. Tillmann’s also known als Dj Real Madrid. Big shoes to fill, no? This remix is very synthy, which we like. If yer into Dominique Dumont and other lo-fi balearic beats, check out the EP too.

Delta, the new album by (Amandine) Maissiat is out. And this beauty is on that album (repost, because it’s great):

Been writing about Maissiat every now and then, to refresh your memory, here’s three great tracks from the past:

With Mina Tindle, great cover of a Jane Birkin song:

Emilie Simon was one of the artists I blogged about in the early years of FillesSourires. Twenty years after the release of first single ‘Desert’ (the whole album is reworked, too) she re-interpreted that first single:

Original version: