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Artist: Nouvelle VagueEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Music Label: Luaka Bop
Soundtracks:
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Just Can't Get Enough
- In a Manner of Speaking
- Guns of Brixton
- This Is Not a Love Song
- Too Drunk To ****
- Marian
- Making Plans for Nigel
- A Forest
- I Melt With You
- Teenage Kicks
- Psyche
- Friday Night Saturday Morning
- Sorry for Laughing
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Free Music Review: Much more than just a loungey 80s cover album!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is based on an interesting premise. Take a social-political-music movement, "new wave", and interpret it through bossa nova (which also means "new wave," in Portuguese). The brash male vocals and stark instrumentation of the original songs yield to cool female vocals and more relaxed tempos. Yang becomes yin.
But this is not to say that the songs lose any of their power in the process. Rather, they gain new layers of complexity through the bossa nova interpretation. "Brixton," for example, is a real treat -- the singer spits out the lyrics with a combination of contempt, weariness, and exasperation not possible in the original.
Thinking of _Nouvelle Vague_ as either "new wave" or "bossa nova" is actually quite limiting. I would say this project, deliberately or inadvertently, has much in common with Brazil's Tropicalia movement, in terms of its global outlook and focus on social issues. In order to make the transition between genres, the artists metaphorically traverse the Atlantic numerous times, from the U.K. to America to Europe to Brazil. In the process, they demonstrate that the social and economic issues underlying new wave still resonate, even decades later, when placed in a new context.
If bossa nova hadn't so quickly become associated with cheese in the United States, (ex. "lounge,") I'm certain that more of Amazon's reviewers would have recognized this album as the intellectual endeavor that it is, rather than reading it as a handful of light, ironic new wave covers.
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Exclusive US edition of their debut album, originally released Internationally in 2004, features one bonus track, 'Sorry For Laughing', Originally released as a single by Josef K in 1980. Luaka Bop.Recycling the 1980s sound has been in vogue lately, so it?s no surprise that the producing team known as Nouvelle Vague would find yet another way to mine the nostalgia for the early ?80s, post-punk era. They?re doing it bossa nova style.
The disc opens with a rendition of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." It?s a charming start, and with a breathy chanteuse on vocals, it?s exactly the kind of sound that has some music critics proclaiming (admittedly with a touch of sarcasm) that Nouvelle Vague is the ironic dinner music for the new millennium. Unfortunately, this CD is somewhat less winning as it wears on. "Guns of Brixton" is annoying when done in a loungey mood, and sitting through "Too Drunk to F**k" in the wrong company could certainly ruin the amuse bouche. Nevertheless, the entertaining tracks do outweigh tiresome ones on this release. If this concept sounds like an interesting idea to you, you?re bound to get a smile from the execution. --Leah Weathersby
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