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February: 18 albums you need to hear this month
Nightmares On Wax, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nils Frahm and more
Charlotte Gainsbourg 'Rest' (Because Music)
Charlotte Gainsbourg is an artist whose folk-tronic leanings occasionally collide with club culture and create accidental club hits. Last month, for example, the stellar Soulwax remix of ‘Deadly Valentine’ was our top pick in Big Tunes. What’s exciting for readers of a certain standing is that Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo has produced the title track, the nicely bubbling and none-more-Gallic/French Touch ‘Rest’, which finds her whispering over a melody that’s pure ‘Discovery’. It’s worth the price of entrance for that track alone, but Ed Banger’s SebastiAn does a stellar job producing an LP that tackles themes such as childhood fears, marriage and addiction, inspired by her personal journals. Ralph Moore
8/10
