Name: La Superbe
Brand: Benjamin Biolay

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

NV818661

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-10-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

3298498186611

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Total Cap

3 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Benjamin Biolay

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Naive

More than 10 years after its release, the cult album La Superbe by Benjamin Biolay is finally reissued on vinyl. While many contemporary French artists have unabashedly attempted to present themselves as the natural heir to Serge Gainsbourg, Biolay is arguably the strongest contender to the throne.

He is a consummate master of the sultry boy/girl dialogue against an ostinato motif of swirling strings that Gainsbourg patented in the 1960s and that since the 1990s has seemingly become the Holy Grail of a hefty chuck of the alternative scene (Pulp, Divine Comedy, Tindersticks, Blur, Portishead, Placebo, Suede). Nowhere is this more evident during La Superbe than in Brandt Rhapsodie, where Biolay and Jeanne Cherhal act out an entire French film of the ‘couple conversation’ genre inside of a five-minute pop song. Biolay is clearly at the top of his game as a composer and arranger and indeed La Superbe sounds like the ultimate decalogue of French sensuality.

La Superbe

Music GB