CHANSONS d’ENNUI TIP-TOP
Album • Oct 22 / 2021 • 12 songs, 43m 53s • 80%
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Following a pair of collaborative albums -- one a tribute to Hollywood's Chateau Marmont with Chilly Gonzales, the other with his improvisational art rock group, Jarv Is -- Jarvis Cocker takes another unpredictable stylistic turn with his first solo album in 12 years, Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top.
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When I first heard that Jarvis Cocker was releasing an album of chanson covers my ear picked up. Having been a fan of the chanson tradition for
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Jarvis Cocker's unofficial Wes Anderson soundtrack is a perfect (French) companion piece of nostalgia and melancholy
An amusing French fancy with a soupçon of inevitability. New music review by Kathryn Reilly