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Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (2009) [2010, Issue for the US Market]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 9 Jan 2019 16:15:20

"IRM" is the 3rd studio album by French electropop singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, with all songs written and produced by Beck except "Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes" (written by Jean-Pierre Ferland). The album title was inspired by the French initialism for an MRI scanner. The title track was released as a free download on 9 October 2009. The album was mostly recorded at Beck's home studio in Los Angeles, California. The lead single is "Heaven Can Wait", a duet with Beck, and was released on 2 November. The music video for "Heaven Can Wait" was directed by Keith Schofield and was released on 19 November 2009. The video for "Heaven Can Wait" was named one of the Top 20 best music videos of 2009 by Spin Magazine. "Trick Pony" is featured in the football video game by EA Sports, FIFA 11. According to Gainsbourg, IRM "was Beck’s view of what I had gone through, and not mine." In 2012 it was awarded a diamond certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 200,000 copies throughout Europe.

~Wikipedia

A lot happened to Charlotte Gainsbourg between the release of 5:55 and IRM. Along with appearing in I'm Not There as one of Bob Dylan's wives, a 2007 water skiing accident pushed her brain to the side and filled her skull with blood, a condition that should have killed or paralyzed her. After emergency surgery, Gainsbourg was fine physically, but still convinced she could die at any moment, undergoing several MRI scans to prove she was all right. She also took one of her most daring roles as an actress, appearing in Lars Von Trier's uncompromising film Antichrist as a violently deranged, grieving mother who disfigures herself and her husband. This mix of fragility and boldness is also the heart of IRM, Gainsbourg's collaboration with Beck. As with 5:55, which featured Nigel Godrich, Jarvis Cocker, and Air, her choice of collaborators is perfect, but the results couldn't be more different. Where her previous album was ethereal and ephemeral, IRM is exciting and eclectic. Beck and Gainsbourg bring out the best in each other: His songwriting and production are so sympathetic and wide-ranging that he's like a director guiding Gainsbourg to inspired performances. Meanwhile, she brings an emotionality and presence to Beck’s flights of fancy that make them more grounded than they would have been as his own songs. IRM still offers plenty of beautiful French atmosphere, but it’s more mussed than on 5:55: The way the strings turn from romantic to a little sinister on the slinky “Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes” is decidedly jolie laide, while “La Collectioneuse” is as eerie as it is lovely. However, the album delivers much more than looser versions of where Gainsbourg has been before. IRM’s title track is a hallucinatory meditation on Gainsbourg’s post-surgery experiences that incorporates the sound of MRI scans (IRM is the French abbreviation of MRI) with a tribal, distorted beat and detached vocals that are closer to Broadcast than any of her previous music. Elsewhere, she dives into deceptively simple folky pop with “Me and Jane Doe” while “Trick Pony”’s breathy sexuality and strutting beats feel like Beck repaying the favor of sampling Serge Gainsbourg’s “Melody Nelson” on Sea Change’s “Paper Tiger.” The pair gets more daring as IRM unfolds, with Beck casting Gainsbourg as a world-weary siren on “Dandelion”’s bluesy shuffle, and a sneering rebel on the brittle “Greenwich Mean Time,” which makes more noise than all of the songs on 5:55 put together. Gainsbourg’s mental and physical healing process unites the album’s experiments, making them personal. “Heaven Can Wait”’s joyful stomp is self-explanatory, but when she sings “you could learn to crawl where you used to walk” on “Vanities,” or “It doesn’t take a miracle to raise a heart from the dead” on “Time of the Assassins,” it adds even more depth. Playful, heartfelt, and unexpected, IRM gives Gainsbourg’s music a new lease on life.

~Review by Heather Phares

Release of this album: 2009, December, 7 [CD Because Music, Cat.# 82564684247, France]
Release of this CD: 2014, February, 26 [CD Because Music/Elektra (USA), Cat.# 2-522709, UPC: 825646 842476]
Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc., a Warner Music Group Company.
℗&© 2009 Because Music under exclusive license to Warner Music International for the World outside France/UK/EIRE.
Printed/Made in the U.S.A.

Credits:

Acoustic Guitar – Beck Hansen (tracks: 4, 8, 12), Jason Falkner (tracks: 4)
Arranged By [String Arrangements] – Drew Brown (tracks: 2)
Arranged By [String Arrangements], Conductor – David Campbell (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 to 13)
Art Direction – Nathalie Canguilhem
Banjo – Matt Mahaffey (tracks: 1)
Bass – Beck Hansen (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12), Bram Inscore (tracks: 4, 7, 8, 11), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 5, 10), Drew Brown (tracks: 1)
Celesta [Celeste] – Bram Inscore (tracks: 4), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 4, 10)
Design – Audrey Prudhomme, Fouad Allaoui, Raphaël Garnier
Drum Programming – Beck Hansen (tracks: 1, 2), Drew Brown (tracks: 1, 2)
Drum Programming [Drum Machine] – Brian Lebarton (tracks: 10)
Drums – Ben Attal (tracks: 9), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 2), James Gadson (tracks: 2, 3, 13), Joey Waronker (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 8, 10 to 12), Matt Sherrod (tracks: 2, 5)
Effects – Drew Brown (tracks: 12, 13)
Engineer [Assistant Engineers] – Rouble Kapoor, Wesley Seidman
Engineer, Mixed By – Darrell Thorp, Drew Brown
Flute – Charlotte Gainsbourg (tracks: 10)
Guitar – Beck Hansen (tracks: 1, 3, 5 to 7, 9 to 11), Jason Falkner (tracks: 8)
Harp – Monique McGuffin (tracks: 7)
Keyboards – Beck Hansen (tracks: 12), Drew Brown (tracks: 13)
Keyboards [Keyboard Bass] – Beck Hansen (tracks: 13)
Marimba – Beck Hansen (tracks: 6), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 6)
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Percussion – Alex Acuna (tracks: 2, 12), Beck Hansen (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 9, 10), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 5, 6, 12, 13), Joey Waronker (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 10, 12), Justin Meldal Johnsen (tracks: 1)
Photography By [Photos] – Autumn De Wilde, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Nick Knight, Paul Jasmin
Piano – Beck Hansen (tracks: 3, 5, 10), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 11), Charlotte Gainsbourg (tracks: 13)
Producer – Beck Hansen
Recorder – Beck Hansen (tracks: 6)
Strings – Drew Brown (tracks: 13)
Synthesizer – Beck Hansen (tracks: 2, 3), Brian Lebarton (tracks: 8)
Tambourine – Brian Lebarton (tracks: 5)
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax] – Matt Demeritt (tracks: 5, 11)
Trombone, Saxophone [Sax] – David Ralicke (tracks: 5, 11)
Trumpet – Chris Bautista (tracks: 5, 11)
Vocals – Beck Hansen (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10, 13), Charlotte Gainsbourg
Voice [Talking] – Alice Attal (tracks: 10)

Tracklist:

01. Master's Hands (02:49)
02. IRM (02:35)
03. Le Chat Du Caf? Des Artistes (04:03)
04. In The End (02:00)
05. Heaven Can Wait (02:41)
06. Me And Jane Doe (03:21)
07. Vanities (03:38)
08. Time Of The Assassins (02:46)
09. Trick Pony (02:53)
10. Greenwich Mean Time (02:25)
11. Dandelion (03:18)
12. Voyage (04:05)
13. La Collectionneuse (05:15)

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DR6 0.00 dB -7.71 dB 2:35 02-IRM
DR6 0.00 dB -8.74 dB 4:03 03-Le Chat du Cafe des Artistes
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DR8 0.00 dB -8.87 dB 4:05 12-Voyage
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