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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Terrible Angels | |||
| 2. Paradisco | |||
| 3. All the Rain | |||
| 4. White Telephone | |||
| 5. Anna | |||
| 6. Got to Let Go | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. IRM. | |||
| 2. Set Yourself on Fire | |||
| 3. Jamais | |||
| 4. Heaven Can Wait | |||
| 5. In the End | |||
| 6. AF607105 | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. One Hour of Footage From 2010 World Tour [DVD] | |||
| 2. Terrible Angels - Video [DVD] | |||
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Review
It’s not that Gainsbourg is swallowed up by her band, more that she doesn’t – or can’t – rise to the occasion as a natural singer can. There’s no extra layer of interpretation, for example, as her version of Dylan’s Just Like a Woman shows. It still charms, though: she doesn’t really sing it, more breathes it, and her band’s arrangement (right out of the Velvet Underground Sunday Morning songbook) follows suit. Jamais is the live standout, with its spongy bass undulating behind Gainsbourg. But surely no 5.55 or IRM fan will prefer these versions, though the bonus DVD has the added value of Charlotte’s brooding stage presence, intercut with behind-the-scenes footage and of-the-moment Instagram-style frippery.
What helps even more is that the added album of out-takes – though at 27 minutes and eight tracks, it’s more of a VEP (Very Extended Player). Of the four Beck off-cuts, none would have disgraced IRM; Terrible Angels’ meaty glam strut (where a more energised Gainsbourg sounds more like Lush’s Miki Berenyi than breathless waif) and Paradisco (a Beck-ian lo-fi reworking of David Bowie’s Fame) might even have improved it. The remaining four tracks call on new Disciples of Serge: Noah and the Whale’s Charlie Fink joins in to play the Velvets-and-Nico-ballad card on Got to Let Go, and Connan Mockasin sublimates his usual complex approach for the generically lovely Out of Touch.
Conor ‘Villagers’ O'Brien’s Memoir is thin by his standards, but the finest new track here is Anna, written by Asa Taccone (of LA duo Electric Guest), who nails that insouciant yet flushed passion that epitomises Gainsbourg’s appeal with a twist of John Barry romance. A couple more similarly disarming tracks plus, say, a four-track live bonus and Stage Whisper could have been a groovy follow-up to IRM instead of the obvious stop-gap it’s intended to be.
--Martin Aston
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huge disappointment. It's a bit of a rag bag of shabby odds and ends, truth-
be-told, which will only be of interest to the hardest of her die-hard fans.
There are eight studio tracks which seem not to have previously made it into
the main frame and eleven live performances largely culled from her last two
albums. The workmanlike band keep Ms Gainsbourg afloat as best they can but
the limitations of her voice become glaringly apparent under the spotlight.
A stonking version of 'Set Yourself On Fire' is about the best of the bunch
but her take on 'Just Like A Woman' is truly dreadful. Slim pickings I'm afraid.
Of the studio cuts 'Terrible Angels' just about muddles through on the tail end
a raunchy foursquare glam-rock-ish backbeat and the atmospheric 'All The Rain'
could have been a winner with a little less reverb concealing the vocal flaws
but 'Got To Let Go' (a creepy duet with Noah & The Whale's Charlie Fink) really
should have stayed hidden on the dusty basement shelf where it rightly belongs.
This ramshackle release will do Ms Gainsbourg's reputation no favours at all.
At Your Own Risk.
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