Quintet, making cool pop music with yacht rock elements and modern influcences. EP has just been released. This single, oh la la

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.

Between poetry and chanson, there’s Melodie Lauret. She’s in the same league als Grand Corps Malade.

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: