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Nouvelle Vague Artist Snapshot:

Headed up by French musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin, Nouvelle Vague is a collective that specializes in bossa nova arrangements of New Wave songs. The band's name is a reference to French New Wave cinema, which further evokes the group's connection to French culture and, especially, the chanson tradition. Nouvelle Vague's self-titled debut featured a number of guest female vocalists to perform breezy, stripped-down bossa nova renditions of gems by Joy Division, the Clash, and XTC, among others. BANDE A PART, released in 2006, followed a similar formula. The project changed directions with NEW WAVE ('07), which updated classic pop tunes with New Wave flair, and again with COMING HOME ('07), which reinterpreted well-known film themes.

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Entertainment Weekly (No. 817/818, p.147) - "Smoky piped chanteuses + a '60s bossa nova beat + '80s new-wave chestnuts = one chouette cover band....as good as it Getz." - Grade: B+

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At a time when seemingly every band with access to an analog synthesizer and a tube of hair gel was aping the New Wave sounds of the early 1980s, NOUVELLE VAGUE put a unique spin on the phenomenon. Their self-titled album is full of covers of classic tunes by the Cure, Modern English, Depeche Mode, et al. The striking twist, however, lies in the fact that all the songs are performed in old-school bossa nova mode, the lyrics delivered in a vintage Astrud Gilberto style. The cooing, breathy vocals and gentle acoustic guitar rhythms successfully transmogrify not only the pop-friendly confections of the aforementioned ensembles, but some edgier material as well. One hasn't truly lived until one has heard the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk to F----" and the Undertones' "Teenage Kicks" sounding like outtakes from the GETZ/GILBERTO album. NOUVELLE VAGUE successfully reinvents its source material without descending into mere schtick.

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