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Charlotte Gainsbourg shares new track and self-directed video taken from her new album

October 23, 2017
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
NEW TRACK ‘RING A RING O’ ROSES’ PRODUCED BY SEBASTIAN
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NEW ALBUM ‘REST’ OUT 17th NOVEMBER ON BECAUSE MUSIC
“A chandelier made of strobe lights” Dazed and Confused
“A comfort blanket of the chicest variety” The Guardian
“One of the bravest performers of our time” Elle UK
“A powerful, brooding, enveloping return” Clash
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new single ‘Ring a Ring O’ Roses’ is out today on Because Music. Taken from her forthcoming album ‘Rest’ (out 17th November), ‘Ring a Ring O’ Roses’ follows the release of previous singles ‘Rest’, co-written with Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and ‘Deadly Valentine’, both released to global critical acclaim last month.
Opening the album with nursery rhyme enchantment, ‘Ring a Ring O’ Roses’, is a hazy mosaic of nostalgic, childhood snapshots emitted in sensuous French and clipped English, the melancholic verses building to an infectious chorus.
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‘Ring a Ring O’ Roses’ music video is one of a series Charlotte helmed in conjunction with the album—beginning with the hypnotic, insinuating ‘Rest’, then the sweeping ‘Deadly Valentine’, featuring Dev Hynes. The ‘Ring a Ring O’ Roses’ video stars her son, Ben Attal, whose resemblance to his mother feeds into the track’s cyclical depiction of gratifying initiation as its own matter of repetition, experienced one generation after the next. The camera thoughtfully captures the 20-year-old Attal in intimate moments—with the perspective alternating between son and mother off in the distance.
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Produced by Ed Bangers’ SebastiAn (Frank Ocean, Kavinsky) and mixed by Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Lorde, David Bowie), ‘Rest’ is Gainsbourg’s first studio album in seven years and features collaborations with Sir Paul McCartney, Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk), Connan Mockasin and Owen Pallett (Arcade Fire, Caribou).
The eleven essays on ‘Rest’ are nothing if not sure-footed, proffering a compelling fusion of gleaming, string-emblazoned modern electro-pop and cinematically textured avant-chanson – their magical music box melodies kissed by bruised, introspective, occasionally disquieting lyrics. The album opens with ‘Ring a Ring a Roses’ and ends with the electro-disco-flavoured ‘Les Oxalis’. In between, there’s ‘Lying With You’, whose busy drums and angular synths frame a lyric about Serge Gainsbourg’s death, the frank, self-examining ‘I’m a Lie’ and the wonderfully Giorgio Moroder-esque ‘Deadly Valentine’, whose lyrics, essentially a string of uncannily delivered wedding vows, play out against a motorik Euro-disco beat and soaring strings.
Another essay, ‘Songbird in a Cage’, was penned for Charlotte by Sir Paul McCartney, no less. “We had a very nice lunch about six-and-a-half years ago”, she recalls. “I told him that if he ever had a song for me it would be a dream come true. A few weeks later he sent this track. It was a demo. I didn’t know what to do with it, because I wanted it to be part of the album. We had to reinvent it. Paul very sweetly came to Electric Lady. He did a bit of piano, some bass, a bit of guitar. It was incredible, just to see him work”.
The aides-de-camp may have played their role on Rest, but it remains undeniably the work of a singular artist. “This time it felt like flying on my own. I knew I needed the right collaborator, and SebastiAn was always there, but all the same, this time the album is really mine”.

‘Rest’, Charlotte’s fourth studio album, is available now for pre-order.

‘Rest’ Track Listing:1. Ring A Ring O’ Roses
2. Lying With You
3. Kate
4. Deadly Valentine
5. I’m A Lie
6. Rest

7. Sylvia Says
8. Songbird In A Cage
9. Les Traits
10. Les Crocodiles
11. Les Oxalis

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