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Yelle

Description:

After jumping headfirst into the pop mainstream with the Dr. Luke-produced album Completement Fou in 2014, the French duo Yelle survived the plunge mostly unscathed. They didnt manage to break through to the masses, but a string of singles subsequently released between 2016 and 2018 showed that their grasp of bubbly dance pop remained strong and the songs benefited from the gentle scrubbing away of some of the shinier upgrades the pop machine affixed to their sound. LEre du Verseau completes the process and then some, with the result being the most streamlined, deepest-sounding, and most powerful album theyve made yet. Its the first time theyve added some darker colors to their paintbox; the basslines are heavier than anchor chains, the synths are as likely to be enveloping as they are to be chirpy, and Julie Budet proves a crack hand at melancholy as she croons sadly through ballads like the synth po