Clio
August 21, 2016
The key track of Clio’s eponymous debut album is Éric Rohmer est mort (Eric Rohmer Is Dead), a tribute to the New Wave director, who died in 2010: “I want more of him,” she laments, “of those lovers on suburban trains/Of Parisian squares where couples hold hands…” (video 1). The young singer-songwriter’s brilliant concept record carries 11 cinematic tracks of French chanson built around lyric images of everyday life and spare arrangements that … More Clio