Quelle surprise!!!

Emilie Simon is a French singer/songwriter and to be honest, truly fucking incredible. En France she's rather huge and has won awards and accolades galore. Elsewhere she's... well it's a sad state of affairs. We could write a thesis on how stubborn and ignorant English-speaking music audiences are and how unwilling they are to listen to music written in other languages, but we'll save it. Emilie Simon, however, like Camille before her, has clearly decided she'd quite like a slice of the pie outside her native land. We can't say we blame her. Having already released English language versions of things outside le monde Francophone, she now seems to be going for a fully English release. We'd verify this but we're lazy.

Anyway her new single, "Dreamland", has 'hit the webz' and it's hot hot hot. It signals a complete departure from her previous stuff. Where before she was sampling ice crunches, dropping little bells like snowdrops across her music and melding sawing synths with glacial strings, warbling about nature and love... now she's gone full pop. It's quite spectacs. There are some wobbly synth bits, and her lovely Gallic vocals and a huge pop tune in there. It's different from her previous stuff, but it's a delight nevertheless. Everyone wins.

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