A very VERY fine song about confinement in a yacht rock style. Super cool tune

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 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.

Gorgeous duet between the crystal clear Amélie Mandeville and Canadian music veteran Daniel Bélanger.

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.

Some female psychedelica (from Lyon based Wendy Martinez) for ya. EP out in February.

Another nod to the neon-coloured 80s pop period, when Niagara, Lio and Elli & Jacno ruled the pop charts. And that’s great:

New version of one of the bestest (retro-)songs of the year, now part Spanish.

From Nantes, France. Louis and Suzanne are brother and sister and form Des Roses. Musically, they fish in same pond als Slowdive, Mojave 3, Beach House – with French accents, of course. Dream pop, loud yet soft-focussed. They sing in English and French, the latter fits better I’d say.

Klara Kristin is a Danish model, actress and singer. She just released a cover EP called Lullaby & Drum Machine, with songs originally sung by Marie Laforet, Gainsbourg, Jeanette and Petula Clark. VERY nice voice.