Standout longplayers

11 June 2023

French artist Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier, professionally known as CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS just released album number four, named PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE . It comprises the second, third and fourth parts – a total of 20 songs – of previous longplayer Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue).

The Guardian (British newspaper): “When Christine and the Queens first appeared in the anglophone world in 2015, the name was an alias for Héloïse Letissier: a French artist with an extraordinary line in immaculately cool, obliquely catchy, 80s-flavoured synthpop that mused on queer identity. By 2018, Letissier had become Chris – the eponymous, androgynous protagonist of her funky second album. Then, last year, the musician announced he was now using male pronouns as well as another moniker: ‘Redcar’, also the title character of his third album, ‘Redcar les Adorables Étoiles’… Letissier’s clearly rocky path to self-realisation has been entangled with seismic grief – in 2019, his mother died – and Paranoïa, Angels, True Love is a howl of despair sublimated into astonishingly beautiful experimental pop, drenched in warm celestial light, punctured by spikes of confused pain… A howl of despair sublimated into beautiful experimental pop, the artist’s fourth album is his best yet.” Score: 5/5.

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Singles/clips: To Be Honest / True Love / Tears Can Be So Soft

– TO BE HONEST –

– TRUE LOVE –

– TEARS CAN BE SO SOFT –

FULL ALBUM

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