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.

 

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.

In the same vein as Pheonix, the Strasbourgeois duo Outlines succeed in marrying sophisticated pop with catchy dancefloor music. After years spent honing their art in the shadow of a great American rapper, they have released an EP, I cannot think – a promising, toe-tapping taster of an album due out later this year.