Charlotte Gainsbourg, “IRM” (produced by Beck) MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Karim Sadli (F41)
Sounding as much like it was produced by Beck as it was produced by a horse in one of those weird dream sequences in The Science of Sleep, “IRM,” the first track from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s newest record. She’s clearly open to influence and collaboration, as this is drastically different than the fog her 5:55 lived in with the help of Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker. Gainsbourg is much more lively here, singing against doorbells and lunch-bucket drums. The studio probably had a bunch of crystals, cassette copies of the “Sex Laws” single, orange Febreeze and a bunch of loose fabric made by Hermes that they draped on all the microphones. It sounds that way—rock and roll loser legend Scientologist with a great hat and handmade acoustic guitars and marimbas meets famous-in-France maybe sorta kinda rich lady with a voice like a lush and European tiny wind tunnel. They recorded this in California and it’s rich with that good West Coast endo and mountain views. Giving it maybe two days until Kanye puts the track up on his blog.
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Video: Charlotte Gainsbourg is Either the Antichrist or Makes Out With Him
- story THE FADER
Once upon a time, FADER made a few film issues, the last of which was graced by the beautiful visage of Charlotte Gainsbourg, then about to appear as the girlfriend of our daydreams in The Science of Sleep. Three years later, she has moved on from quirky Gondry heroine to highly disturbed horror queen in Antichrist, directed by former Dogme 95er Lars Von Trier. The plot is described by AP as “a psychotic woman torturing her husband and mutilating herself during a trip to the woods intended as a healing sojourn.” She recently won Best Actress at Cannes for her role opposite Willem Dafoe, which is great because we plan never to watch this movie unless someone we really want to hook up with makes us (even then probably not), so our compliments of her acting would’ve sounded bullshit. Congrats on doing whatever you did in this, Charlotte. Here’s to Dafoe being the antichrist!
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posted on May 28, 2009 in ART+CULTURE VIDEO tags Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Willem Dafoe
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story THE FADER
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Charlotte Gainsbourg’s album 5:55 which you can purchase here. Listen to “Songs That We Sing” from the record below and read about it after the jump.
