Francoise Hardy - L'AmitieBetween 1962 and 1966, Francoise Hardy released one French language album per year. Each, strictly speaking, was eponymously titled and each was collected from a series of contemporary four track, seven inch, picture sleeve EPs pop music's main format in France, known as le super 45. In them, we see the maturing of one of the decade's most singular talents a pop singer with the heart of a chanteuse, a singer songwriter in an age before such a thing

"I Could Be Anything

and subterranean trombones

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The next line you hear after that however

The UK cover photography was by Bruce Flemming

this is most definitely an album which is greater than the sum of its parts

Kelley‰۪s like a RayåÊDavies / Brian Wilson / Tom Petty power pop CerebusåÊfrom another dimension where well placed tambourines

The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results

Ron Isley and James Fauntleroy

their voices are modestly buried in the mix

" 17 minutes of sex

LP - Black Vinyl with Download