#2578 Jane Berkin and Serge Gainsbourg - Jane Berkin and Serge Gainsbourg

Exquisitely French, drippingly sexy lounge music, soaked with strings, shuffly drums, and punchy rock organs. This it doesn't exist just for your lovemaking. It seems by all accounts like a sincere expression of Gainsbourg's overflowing affection for his new love - even the Birkin-fronted songs feel like gifts he's given her, landscapes to romp around in, gamely embraced. So much breathiness, so much gesture and sweep, so much inflection and insinuation, chiming head-tilts, half-whispers close enough to feel 3.5/5