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01. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Master's Hand
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02. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - IRM
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03. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Le Chat du Café des Artistes
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04. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - In the End
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05. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Heaven Can Wait
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06. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Me and Jane Doe
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01. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Vanities
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02. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Time of the Assassins
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03. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Trick Pony
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04. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Greenwich Mean Time
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05. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Dandelion
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06. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Voyage
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07. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - La Collectionneuse
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ARTIST
GAINSBOURG, CHARLOTTE
TITLE
IRM
FORMAT
2LP+CD
LABEL
BECAUSE MUSIC
CATALOG #
BEC 5161977
BEC 5161977
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/3/2015
2020 repress; double vinyl reissue, with gatefold sleeve (CD included). Originally released in 2009. "Where her previous album was ethereal and ephemeral,
IRM
is exciting and eclectic.
Beck
and
Gainsbourg
bring out the best in each other: His songwriting and production are so sympathetic and wide-ranging that he's like a director guiding Gainsbourg to inspired performances. Meanwhile, she brings an emotionality and presence to Beck's flights of fancy that make them more grounded than they would have been as his own songs.
IRM
still offers plenty of beautiful French atmosphere, but it's more mussed than on
5:55
: The way the strings turn from romantic to a little sinister on the slinky 'Le Chat du Café des Artistes' is decidedly jolie laide, while 'La Collectioneuse' is as eerie as it is lovely. However, the album delivers much more than looser versions of where Gainsbourg has been before.
IRM
's title track is a hallucinatory meditation... Elsewhere, she dives into deceptively simple folky pop with 'Me and Jane Doe' while 'Trick Pony''s breathy sexuality and strutting beats feel like Beck repaying the favor of sampling
Serge Gainsbourg
's 'Melody Nelson' on
Sea Change
's 'Paper Tiger.' The pair gets more daring as
IRM
unfolds, with Beck casting Gainsbourg as a world-weary siren on 'Dandelion''s bluesy shuffle, and a sneering rebel on the brittle 'Greenwich Mean Time,' which makes more noise than all of the songs on
5:55
put together... 'Heaven Can Wait''s joyful stomp is self-explanatory, but when she sings 'you could learn to crawl where you used to walk' on 'Vanities,' or 'It doesn't take a miracle to raise a heart from the dead' on 'Time of the Assassins,' it adds even more depth. Playful, heartfelt, and unexpected." --AllMusic
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