Wow, the Gainsbourgs have been busy this year, and I’m so not complaining. I adored Jane Birkin’s new album “Home” earlier in the year, no messing around, just pure old-fashioned Jane Birkin, and now this one from her daughter comes out of the blue. The Gainsbourg/Birkin blood is evident all around, with very “Bonnie & Clyde” like strings (if not the original strings re-sampled) on “The Songs that We Sing”, eg, and Charlotte’s voice astonishingly like her mother’s (in “Everything I Cannot See”, I kid not, we have a serious challenger for “Je T’aime (Moi Non Plus)” – if I hear a sexier song this year it’ll be the first time music has literally … uh … ‘pleasured me’ ... lol …). But then you look at the other credits on the album – Air on the music, Jarvis Cocker on the lyrics, and more – and this is truly a chocolate box of an album which will definitely, definitely make my best of list at the end of the year. Must seek out “Lemon Incest”.

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