January 6, 2026
Amnesty as Art Listening Post 392. On Sains & Saufs (Safe & Sound), Zaz opens with Je pardonne, a declaration of forgiveness: “I forgive from the bottom of my heart,” she sings, with intimacy and grace, “Nothing haunts me, nothing stops me/No hard feelings, no...
December 19, 2024
Love & Legacy Listening Post 384. Dadju and Tayc are both on the shortlist of today’s leading French singer-songwriters, so when they envisioned a joint album they had every reason to be optimistic about success. Still, they left little to chance: Months in...
April 10, 2016
Floating to the Top Listening Post 42. The second album by Jérémy Frérot and Florian Delavega explores and floats between innocence and experience, dream and reality, yesterday and today—and, as the title indicates, shadow and light. Just a year after their...
February 22, 2016
C’est la Vie Listening Post 35. Throughout his 40-year career, Francis Cabrel—the greatest French singer-songwriter of his generation—has woven strands of folk, blues, jazz, rock and pop into iconic songs of relationships, protest and social commentary. On his 13th...
