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Charlotte Gainsbourg
I.R.M.
By Jeff Niesel
Daughter of the great French singer Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg is slowly but surely making a name for herself as a musician. She’s already an established actress and if you saw her edgy performance last year in Lars Von Trier’s gruesome Anti-Christ, you know she can be quite daring. With some help from Beck, who co-wrote the songs here, I.R.M. is her best album to date.
It opens with the shuffling electro-pop of “Master’s Hands” and quickly ventures into orchestral territory with the luscious “Le Chat du Café de Artistes,” which, as the title implies, she sings in French. Quirky pop songs such as “In the End” and “La Collectionneuse” sound like they could have come from the Juno soundtrack. The same goes for the primitive “Me and Jane Doe,” which features a cascade of cooing backing vocals as Gainsbourg virtually talks her way through the song. Noisy enough to pass as something by the Dead Weather, “Trick Pony” is the album’s most adventurous tune. While “Vanities” is a bit too precious for its own good, that’s the exception here.
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