Omertà - Collection Particuliere

Another Spotify find. Was listening to the new Jim White track (you should too it’s called Names Make The Name) and this came on afterwards. Dating from 2019 it seems sold out everywhere (guessing it was a limited press) which is a shame as I would have bought it immediately. It’s floaty, beat driven French dream pop and it’s total bliss. I got lost in it on the tube in Londo. In fact, it was the perfect foil for the horror of being on a shit, cramped train under the ground!

The music is really quite beautiful and sensual with the vocals of Florence Giroud key to the overall success of the record. The French language is beautiful and Giroud uses her voice to great effect here. For me, I’m realising as I get older that although words do matter in music what is way more important to me is the way a vocal is used and the sound of it within the shape of the music. I’ve realised this listening to Japanese artists, French artists, Dutch artists but equally through my love of REM and Radiohead and even more recently PJ Harvey’s I Inside The Old Year Dying - where the old Dorset tongue is used. That is an aside though because this record is very much worth finding and taking the time to explore.