
Listen: “White Telephone” by Charlotte Gainsbourg
From Forthcoming Album Stage Whisper
Yesterday, Charlotte Gainsbourg danced with doppelgangers and announced a forthcoming EP. Today the French singer/actress dropped a single from forthcoming live double album, Stage Whisper (due out November 8). Called “White Telephone” the track was given away to subscribers of French publication Courrier International. Head over to Magicrpm to take a listen, or check out the Stage Whisper tracklist below.
Live:
1. IRM
2. Set Yourself On Fire
3. Jamais
4. Heaven Can Wait
5. In The End
6. AF 607 105
7. Just Like A Woman
8. The Operations
9. Trick Pony
10. The Songs That We Sing
11. Voyage
Unreleased:
1. Terrible Angels
2. Paradisco
3. All The Rain
4. White Telephone
5. Go To Let Go
6. Out Of Touch
7. Memoir
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January 15th 2019
1:32pm
his collection of unreleased tracks, live songs and, in the fancy box-set edition, a concert DVD, is Charlotte Gainsbourg’s first album since 2010’s impressive IRM. The curiosity is in the eight offcuts. Beck’s work on IRM carries over into four songs – Terrible Angels and Paradisco offer a kind of oscillating glam-funk that goes perfectly with Gainsbourg’s clipped, blank vocal style, reminiscent of telephone systems relocation, while All the Rain and White Telephone reimagine her as a 70s balladeer, with an intriguing timelessness emerging. Connan Mockasin, Conor O’Brien and Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale also help out, although it’s with Beck she seems most comfortable. But the live album creates a strange, not entirely flattering contrast: Gainsbourg’s voice sounds thin and adrift against too much noodling, and it only emphasizes how much of a studio performer she is.