I am in love with Nouvelle Vague and this is the album that started it all. I mean how great a concept: take two great musician/musical arrangers in the form of France's Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin, add amazing female vocalists (including my favorite Melanie Pain), make cover songs of new wave, punk, post punk, goth, and new romantics songs, give it a bossa nova/lounge style twist and you get perfection. All the albums are great but there's something about this first one that has always just resonated with me perhaps because the same reason you just love Breathless or Hiroshima Mon Amour, on top of amazing they came first. What's great is that the album also maintains a wonderful balance of vivid energy, relaxing bliss, and just something clever. Favorite Tracks: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Just Can't Get Enough, In A Manner of Speaking, This Is Not A Lovesong, Too Drunk To Fuck, I Melt With You, Friday Night Saturday Morning
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Album a Day: Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
I am in love with Nouvelle Vague and this is the album that started it all. I mean how great a concept: take two great musician/musical arrangers in the form of France's Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin, add amazing female vocalists (including my favorite Melanie Pain), make cover songs of new wave, punk, post punk, goth, and new romantics songs, give it a bossa nova/lounge style twist and you get perfection. All the albums are great but there's something about this first one that has always just resonated with me perhaps because the same reason you just love Breathless or Hiroshima Mon Amour, on top of amazing they came first. What's great is that the album also maintains a wonderful balance of vivid energy, relaxing bliss, and just something clever. Favorite Tracks: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Just Can't Get Enough, In A Manner of Speaking, This Is Not A Lovesong, Too Drunk To Fuck, I Melt With You, Friday Night Saturday Morning
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