Rest (Limited)
Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Ring-A-Ring O’ Roses
- Lying With You
- Kate
- Deadly Valentine
- I’m A Lie
- Rest
- Sylvia Says
- Songbird In A Cage
- Dans Vos Airs
- Les Crocodiles
- Les Oxalis
Entitled Rest, the new album is produced by Sebastian, the French Touch 2.0 artist and collaborator of Frank Ocean and Kavinsky, and sung in French and English. More than anything she has made before—because she has always been very private—this is album is an uncompromising self-portrait. For the first time, Charlotte has written her own lyrics, often inspired by her journals, and chosen to sing in French, to speak openly about her father’s death (Lying With You), about the passing of her sister (Kate), about her crippling shyness (I’m a Lie), about her childhood fears (Les Crocodiles), about the afterlife (Les Oxalis), about the passage of time (Ring a Ring a Roses) and her beating heart (Les Traits).
She invited various artists to collaborate with her, including Sir Paul McCartney, who wrote Songbird in a Cage for her, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (half of Daft Punk), who composed and produced the track Rest. A wide range of musicians of different styles and traditions contribute to the recording: Connan Mockasin, Owen Pallet (Arcade Fire, Caribou, Franz Ferdinand), Emile Sorin (Forever Pavot), Vincent Taeger (Poni Hoax) and Tom Elmhirst (Frank Ocean, David Bowie, Jamie XX, Adele), who mixed the album.
