Bibi Tanga and his Selenites are back on track with 40° of Sunshine, a torrid album cooked up during a tour of Africa. Conjuring up memories of dance-filled bars fermented in palm toddy, the dozen tracks mark out the tempo with a flourish.

To celebrate two decades since he released his first album, La Fossette, Dominique A is pulling out the stoppers. Along with remastered editions of his eight albums and a new album due out in March, he’ll be re-creating his seminal minimalist pop opus on stage, in partnership with Paris’s Théâtre de la Ville. One of France’s most unusual singers shares his thoughts on past and present.

 

Yann Tiersen hits the heights with Skyline, a strident seventh album with a spacey indie-pop sound verging on post rock. The composer of the Amélie soundtrack embellishes his familiar outlandish soundscapes with some brilliant instrumental and vocal choices.

Christophe Miossec is about to release Chansons Ordinaires. In his usual red herring style, the Brest-based singer has severed links with Yann Tiersen and immersed himself in the younger rock scene of another Breton town, Rennes. The result is eleven songs pondering lost friendships, disenchanted observations and ironic nostalgia set to a noisier, sharper guitar backdrop. Interview.