Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of…) has released her first album in twenty years, and it is getting raving reviews. Here’s what the Observer wrote about it:

Twenty years on, now in her early thirties and with a successful career as an actress behind her, Charlotte Gainsbourg has returned to music with an album that is every bit as daring and sophisticated as the best of her father’s work. More to the point, 5.55 reveals Charlotte not so much as a gifted singer (as with her father, her vocal range is limited) but as a stunning interpreter of songs and situations.

The lyrics of all songs are in English. Gainsbourg in an interview with RFI Musique:

I was really concerned about the lyrics on the album. And I decided pretty early on in the piece that I was going to sing in English because I felt singing in French would be too close to my Dad – it would have been too close, and never as good as him anyway!

Here’s part of the likely hit from the new album: “the songs that we sing”:

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