les chansons de la nouvelle scene francaise (and the oldies too), und ein Deutsch Popsängerin

Credit: Myspace

Coralie Clement is a sultry French pop songstress defined under the chanson genre, however, I think her music is a pretty far cry from the likes of Edith Piaf and Jaques Brel. She has some Chanson-ic elements to her music. Shes been around for a bit now, but I just discovered her earlier music and it's absolutely beautiful; archaic twee fused with the coolness of surf-rock and quintessential latin-influenced old French music. It's impossible not to like, and is impeccably French. Oh, and guys - she's fucking hot.

Coralie Clément - Ca valait la peine

Coralie Clément - Samba De Mon Coeur Qui Bat

Credit: this is my own photo, taken with a Sainsbury's Basics range disposable camera. (Seriously)

If you liked the Noemi track (earlier post) and Coralie, try these 60s songstresses:

Zouzou - Il est parti comme il Ètait venu
Zouzou - Tu fais partie du passÈ
Zouzou's music reminds me of The Velvet Underground but sexier and Frencher.

France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles
Jacqueline Taieb - Bienvenue Au Pays
These two are cheeky Ye-Ye girls, singing along to more upbeat pop.

Françoise Hardy - Mon amie le rose
Beautiful.

By the way - look around Greenwich. Tom and I went into this record shop in Greenwich, and spent about 40 minutes to an hour rifling through all the bargain promos and found a massive amount of new and super-amazing music. We found: a Ratatat album, an Esser promo, Le Pop 2 (a collection of nouvelle French pop), some Clarky Cat, Busy P's 'Pedrophilia' EP, SebastiAn's MOTOR EP, Evil Nine - They Live (yeah, the albums were like £2 each!), Marco Carola Fabric 31 (absolute minimal goodness), Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams, and some new Lykke Li! And more. f u c k.

Here's the best of what we found:

Micachu - Golden Phone
Micachu is amazing. I've seen her live at DURRR and Pure Groove - this song is SO CATCHY AND GOOD. It's a great bit of simple pop music. I love this. Download this.

Ratatat - Mirando
Ratatat - Schiller
Ratatat are weird. Check them out!

Destroyer - Shooting Rockets (From The Desk Of Night's Ape)
This reminds me a bit of Bowie. He's a poet, and probably smokes loads of fags because his voice is a little croaky and strained (nowhere near Tom Waits though).

Holden - Tunis
More French pop! From Le Pop 2. It's one of those songs you listen to on your own whilst looking out of the window, or zoning out in the middle of a conversation at a party.

SebastiAn - Momy
Elastic band electro. 'nuff said.

IWASACUBSCOUT - I Hate Nightclubs
They're all broke up now. Bleepy indie-rock with straining vocals. They were on Abeano - check the label.

Busy P - To Protect and Entertain (Crookers Remix)
Busy P - To Protect and Entertain (Mr Oizo Remix)
Busy P = electro maestro, founder of Ed Banger and Daft Punk's manager (IN CASE U DO-NO) + Crookers + Mr Oizo. 'nuff said again.

Matt John - Io
Minimal techno ear sex from Marco Carola's fabric (31).

Credit: Kitty Hoff's Myspace

I'm not being a racialist, but whoever thought the German language was sexy? Nobody. Ever. However, this foxy 20's flapper girl styled German songstress Kitty Hoff proved me wrong and pulled it off. Yeah!

Kitty Hoff - Blaue Stunde
Kitty Hoff - Toc Toc Toc