Like its Jean-Luc Godard namesake, Nouvelle Vague’s Bande A Part mixes fatalism and starryeyed naïveté to playful, joyous effect. Gone is chanteuse Camille, making way for the Rive Gauche sensuality of Silja and aptly monikered Lost Princess of ennui, Melanie Pain. Darker ’80s gems are recast as svelte sophisticated tunes, with tracks such as the Voodoo-Goth take on Bauhaus’ vampiric ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, the retro-soul invocation of Bill Withers on Yazoo’s ‘Don’t Go’, and The Cramps’ ‘Human Fly’ turned into a velvety burlesque number. But the best track has to be the slow Kingston stomp of ‘Heart of Glass’, which certainly trumps Ms Harry in the pouty stakes. There’s more than enough Gauloise and rouge-lipped Left Bank sexiness here to keep aficionados blissfully happy.
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Bande A Part
$26.95 – Compact disc / Filter Music
Like its Jean-Luc Godard namesake, Nouvelle Vague’s Bande A Part mixes fatalism and starryeyed naïveté to playful, joyous effect. Gone is chanteuse Camille, making way for the Rive Gauche sensuality of Silja and aptly mo... Buy or find out more →
Quelqu Un Ma Dit
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Aman Iman (Water Is Life)
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This is an incredible leap forward for this band of outlaw musicians from the deserts of Mali. Their second proper album finds Tinariwen in full command of their electric guitars, with interlocking rhythm parts punctuate... Buy or find out more →
Nouvelle Vague
Couleur Sur Paris
$24.95 – Compact disc / Cartell Music
For their fourth album of brilliantly re-imagined postpunk-pop, the French supergroup NOUVELLE VAGUE has turned its sights away from the UK and US to instead look inward. The inspired result is a collaboration between tw... Buy or find out more →
NV3
$16.95 – Compact disc / Filter Music
2009 release, the third album from the French band that conquered the world with Bossa Nova covers of Punk and New Wave classics. Features guest vocals from Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunny... Buy or find out more →
Bande A Part
$26.95 – Compact disc / Filter Music
Like its Jean-Luc Godard namesake, Nouvelle Vague’s Bande A Part mixes fatalism and starryeyed naïveté to playful, joyous effect. Gone is chanteuse Camille, making way for the Rive Gauche sensuality of Silja and aptly mo... Buy or find out more →
New Wave
$34.95 – Compact disc / District 6
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Coming Home
$29.95 – Compact disc / Stereo Deluxe
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