Noémie
Noémie (no, not the singer of Hooverphonic) has it all: a sensual, husky voice not unlike that of Emilie Simon (listen to that little hiccup!), top-collaborators (Adrienne Pauly, Luce, Christophe, The Shoes’ Benjamin Lebeau) and a video with images from the movie L’Effrontée starring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg. Her EP’s out now, an album will be released later this year. Enchantée.
Vanessa Contenay-Quinones
A new album’s coming up by one of the most gorgeous neo-yeye chanteuses, Vanessa Contenay-Quinones. The first single is a winner: fuzz guitars, tambourines, phat drums and that husky voice of V. Listen:
Want more? In the coming days, new tracks are posted on Vanessa’s Soundcloud.
Banda Magda
They’re from New York, New York but they have Greek, Japanese and Argentinian roots. Magda Giannikou is the lead singer (hence ‘Banda Magda’) and they play colourful, upbeat music with Greek, Brasilian and French influences. A new album is about to be released, with this easy-on-the-ears track already listen- and downloadable:
Karen Brunon covers Isabelle Adjani
Karen Brunon – Pull marine en live dans le… door rtl-fr
Original version (written by Gainsbourg):
More versions:
Nolwenn Leroy:
Sarah Caillibot
Rose:
Alex Beaupain:
Patrick Peronne (instrumental):
Maissait & Mina Tindle cover Jane Birkin
Original version:
New Brigitte video
Duo Brigitte is back! New album in November, this is the first single:
Clara Yucatan
New kid(s) on the block: Clara Yucatan. From the homepage: ‘Clara Yucatan, c’est une fille, son frère et un chauve qui sourit/Clara Yucatan, c’est une voix, du groove et des claviers rafraîchissants.’ Well put. They released two EPs and an album in their three years of existence, quite impressive. This single does have nice claviers and a cool groove:
Also pretty nice, their L’Amour a la Plage cover:
Listen to more tracks on Soundcloud
New Fanny Bloom track
Relax, people. Sure, we were all a bit shaken when our favourite kooky Quebecoise released her fiesta-anthem Piscine just before summer. We didn’t know she could twerk. But on her just-about-to-be-released album ‘Pan’, there’s at least one song that takes it down a notch or three. Listen to Drama Queens – and don’t be fooled by the title.
Moodoïd album
Le Monde Môö, the new album by supersweet French psychrockers Moodoïd, is out now. It’s a kaleidoscopic album, with spiraling synths, sweet sighing girlie voices, ‘eavily accented Franglais vocals and weird workouts (try Heavy Metal Be Bop 2). Best tracks are La Lune and Le chemins de traverse, but this song is quite nice too:
Listen to the whole album (with bonus tracks) on Bandcamp.