Charlène Darling - La Porte

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: DISC27
Barcode: 5056614706444
Release Date: 03 Nov 2023
Genre: Alternative / Pop / Experimental

 An exploration of misplaced desire and all-consuming romantic obsession, told through a series of beautifully constructed leftfield pop songs. ‘La Porte’, the second studio album by Charlotte Kouklia aka Charlène Darling, finds the
artist and her group building a self-contained musical world via French and English language vocals, and a minimalist backing of guitar, organ, bass and drums.
 At times recalling the feminist post-punk of The Raincoats, the avant songcraft of Brigitte Fontaine, or the psychedelic vignettes of Cate Le Bon, in truth Charlène Darling sounds like herself. The arrangements are playfully experimental, dubbed
out percussion bubbling over the stripped back instrumentation, or rough tape edits disrupting lush harmonies, but never losing sight of the earworm
hooks that make these songs so addictively listenable. Step through the door and walk right in.
 Charlotte is one quarter of the band Rose Mercie. After a beguiling series of DIY tape and CD-R releases, her first widely distributed solo album, ‘Saint-Guidon’, was released in 2019.
 Black vinyl LP in printed inner sleeve with lyrics in both French and English.

Tracklisting
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Disparais
Tout s'efface
Les gros chevaux
Au fleuve
Abril Terra
La chanson du regard
Out at sea
Encore un soir
Une nuit sans amour

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