jmjiloveyou

<h2><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Nouvelle_Vague_-_Nouvelle_Vague_alternate.jpg" alt="Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague alternate.jpg"></h2><h2><br></h2><h2>Background and production</h2><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Collin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Collin</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Libaux" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Olivier Libaux</a> began work on the project in 2003, after Collin had the idea of covering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joy Division</a>'s "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Love Will Tear Us Apart</a>" in a bossa nova style.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-bbc-talking-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a> Libaux later explained: "I met Marc Collin during the 90's, at a friend's place. Marc was the first musician I met in years who I could talk [to] about new wave music. For some reason, at the end of the 80's, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">punk</a> and new wave music had turned into a sort of old-fashioned music, which nobody was talking about anymore. Meeting Marc, I could talk about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranglers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Stranglers</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Cure</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sisters_of_Mercy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Sisters of Mercy</a> again. We then have worked on a couple of albums he was producing ... Starting Nouvelle Vague was sounding obvious for us, as our ideas were matching, and the songs were happening well and quickly."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-saltlake-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a> The album was produced and recorded over a period of eight months.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-bbc-talking-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><h2>Artwork</h2><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Guardian</em></a> included the album's artwork in a list of the ten "most beautiful sleeves of 2004".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-guardian-artwork-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a> The newspaper wrote, "The band's covers feature sultry 1960s figures, the work of fashion designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Deacon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Giles Deacon</a>, with a self-consciously lo-fi feel."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-guardian-artwork-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a> The album's art director was quoted explaining, "We were very anti-computer ... Each letter of the band's name was cut out by hand, but done so in a deliberately rigid manner, as a kind of whimsical nod to modernism."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-guardian-artwork-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a></p><h2>Release</h2><p><em>Nouvelle Vague</em> peaked at number 69 on the French album charts, spending a total of 39 weeks in the top 200.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-lescharts-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[6]</a> The album also charted on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultratop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Belgian album charts</a>, peaking at number 100 in the Walloon chart and number 96 in the Flemish chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-FL-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-WA-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[8]</a> In 2006, it was reported that the album had sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-inrocks-bap-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[9]</a></p><h2>Critical reception</h2><p><em>Nouvelle Vague</em> received generally positive reviews. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork_(website)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Pitchfork</em></a><em>'</em>s reviewer wrote, "The supposed ignorance of the singers plays well for this record's lack of irony, a big part of what makes it succeed as a well-meaning, well-executed novelty."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-pitchfork-17" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[17]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Telegraph</em></a> wrote, "Marc Collin and Oliver Libaux and their eight guest chanteuses transform these songs with such skill and sincerity to their Latin syncopation that each becomes altogether new and lovely."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-telegraph-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Guardian</em></a><em>'</em>s reviewer wrote, "Only a frisky samba romp through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche_Mode" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Depeche Mode</a>'s '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Can%27t_Get_Enough_(Depeche_Mode_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Just Can't Get Enough</a>' flirts with kitsch. Elsewhere, familiar lyrics and arrangements are turned inside out to generate frosty menace (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Clash</a>'s '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_Brixton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Guns of Brixton</a>'), giggly coquetry ('<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Drunk_to_Fuck" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Too Drunk To Fuck</a>' by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dead Kennedys</a>) or haunting languor (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Cure</a>'s '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Forest" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Forest</a>', teeming with birdsong)."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-guardian-review-13" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[13]</a></p><p>The more negative reviews take issue with the concept of the album itself. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AllMusic</a>'s review begins: "The best compliment that can be paid to Nouvelle Vague's self-titled debut album: it isn't as arch and smirking as a collection of bossa nova versions of new wave classics by fetching French and Brazilian chanteuses would suggest."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-allmusic-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[10]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>NME</em></a> gave the album a 1 out of 10 rating, writing, "the very concept of Nouvelle Vague - alternative '80s hits done in a deeply kitsch, sub-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebel_Gilberto" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bebel Gilberto</a> sunset-samba style – is one that's so tired, so looooong past any imagined sell-by date that we're honestly astounded it exists."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-nme-16" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[16]</a> Several reviewers drew comparisons, both favourable<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-guardian-review-13" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-inrocks-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[20]</a> and unfavourable,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-nme-16" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[16]</a> with an album of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kraftwerk</a> covers recorded by the German musician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Schmidt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Uwe Schmidt</a> (also known as Señor Coconut), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Baile_Alem%C3%A1n" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>El Baile Alemán</em></a> (2000).</p><h2>In 2015, <em>The Telegraph</em> named the album's cover of "Just Can't Get Enough" in a list of the "50 best covers".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_(album)#cite_note-telegraph50-21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[21]</a></h2><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>