Charlotte Gainsbourg – Trick Pony
Lately I’ve been able to group a lot of the music that’s been hitting the spot together into little pockets – Canadian music, Scandanavian music, dreamy electro, covers are a few of them. There has been a bit of crossover and I think this track could very easily pick up a couple from previous pockets to form its own splinter group but I’m going to give it its own.
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
I may have completely made this up or it may actually exist, but I think ‘darktronic’ fits pretty well…and Turnstile Blues, Eyes on Fire and When I’m Small belong in there with it:
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Trick Pony
It’s sultry, seductive with a dangerous air – and there’s also a fuzziness around the vocal that’s similar to the other three tracks. This one verges towards the positive, though, in contrast to the others which have a more ominous edge to them…
The whole album, IRM, co-created with Beck, is available to stream on we7 (IRM, Le Chat du Café des Artistes – the French one – would be my other picks) but this is the track that always stops me mid-task and demands full, rather than background, attention.
I think she might be French….?
