Ma cheri Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Je t’adore! In fact, I’m currently obsessed with your new album, IRM. I must admit I had a wee tender for your father, Serge. Listening to his music made me want to smoke cloves and lounge about in velvet-covered wine cellars with beatnik intellectuals in a post-coital fog of bliss. Your songs evoke an entirely different, but equally delightful, sensation. Particularly with this album, and perhaps in no small part to Beck’s influence, I am transported to a far more sugar plum world. I daydream of skipping, spinning and dancing my way through fields of daisies and marigolds while Vaseline-covered lenses capture the essence of pure joy that flits through sun-baked skies like a mischievous fairy come alive with laughter. This is not nearly as scary as it may sound. I’m actually quite sane.
I simply love your music, and I strongly encourage everyone who has ears to check out your new album.
Sincerely,
-em
Square-Peg Karen
/ January 28, 2010omyword – I HAD to check these two out after reading your post. I went and listened to samples — had never heard of them – either of them…but then…sigh, if it weren’t for my daughter I would know nothing past the music of Yes – luckily she keeps me semi-aware of what’s around…but not these two and i can’t wait to see if i heard of them first (tho it’s doubtful – she’ll probably point to her CD’s and show me a # of albums from each of them – grin)
anyway..i’m not sure which i like more – hearing the music of these two folks or reading your unbelievably gorgeous writing ABOUT them!
emmajames
/ January 29, 2010Karen: Can’t wait to learn whether you did indeed beat your daughter to this discovery – do tell! And enjoy