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5:55 (CD)

By: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Artist)

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Charlotte Gainsbourg Artist Snapshot:

The daughter of British actress Jane Birkin and French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg has successfully explored both sides of the family trade, drawing accolades for her sophisticated film acting and pleasant and evocative singing. Although she recorded an album (featuring the disturbing novelty duet "Lemon Incest") of her father's songs as a young teenager in the mid-1980s, Charlotte Gainsbourg's music career began in earnest with the release of 5:55 almost 20 years later. Now singing almost entirely in English, the French chanteuse made a favorable impression on critics and fans with tasteful, electro-pop collaborations with the French duo Air.

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DISC 1 for 5:55 (CD) Album By Charlotte Gainsbourg (Artist)
1   5:55
2   Af607105
3   Operation, The
4   Tel Que Tu Es
5   Songs That We Sing, The
6   Beauty Mark
7   Little Monsters
8   Jamais
9   Night-Time Intermission
10   Everything I Cannot See
11   Morning Song
12   Set Yourself On Fire - (U.S. Bonus Tracks)
13   Somewhere Between Waking & Sleeping - (U.S. Bonus Tracks)
 

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Review

Magnet (p.98) - "Gainsbourg is a whispery, transparent presence.....She suits the pre-dawn mood alluded to in 5:55's title, a waking dream state where illusions seem real."
CMJ (p.4) - "The album is soothing, moody and brimming with Nigel Godrich's funky lounge production..."

Title Note

Coming a full decade after her debut, Charlotte Gainsbourg's second album is a significant departure from her early work, which was directly influenced by her late father, Serge Gainsbourg. On 5:55, Gainsbourg has taken the interesting tack of collaborating not with people who had worked with her father, the most divisive and influential figure in the history of French pop music, but with musicians of her own generation who have previously acknowledged his influence.

Jarvis Cocker, formerly of Britpop mainstays Pulp, Neil Hannon of Irish chamber pop orchestra The Divine Comedy, and the French duo Air have all previously recorded songs indebted to Serge Gainsbourg, but that influence is tempered here by deference to Charlotte's own gifts. Her sultry vocals remain at the fore of all of these songs, supported by the musicians' subtle, soundtrack-like settings. Highlights include the title track and the erotic "Beauty Mark."

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