Tuesday, July 5, 2016

#2082 Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

What a slinky, sexy piece of cool. The epic first and last tracks are the highlights - everything floats and coasts and slides, dips into velvet depths and soars into sharp-dressed sky parties, spiked with prickly guitars, Tropicalia gone high society. Shades of A Moon Shaped Pool, actually.

The rest is a bit mixed - too formless in places, too ridiculous in others (ok, ok, En Melody), but the album's must-hear: mysterious and sensual and strange and right 4/5

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