It's Friday kids so it's time for another Critical Metrics track.
Sebastien Tellier's track La Ritournelle is a gorgeous masterpiece of downtempo beats and airy vocals. I featured it in one of my rock climbing videos because of this (I'm the handsome one with the glasses). Sebastien's Frenchiness come out in all the right ways. A love song that only the French can come up with.
“A quite staggeringly beautiful piece of music; one to file in the "Unfinished Sympathy"/"Clubbed to Death" bracket. Beardy Frenchman Tellier has created a minor masterpiece--all piano riffs, violin sweeps and crisp drums, eventually culminating in a distinctive, very Gallic vocal snatch. One of the finest downtempo cuts for quite some time.”