Hello and welcome to the Guide, written by me this week in Gwilym’s absence.
Today marks the release of the fourth album by French singer Christine and the Queens, AKA Héloïse Letissier. Back in 2014, Letissier’s debut LP, Chaleur Humaine (human warmth) marked the arrival of a playful alt-pop artist marked by their experimentalism both in terms of gender politics and an insouciant attitude towards French and English, floating effortlessly between the two and writing slick parallel versions of tracks which were more like siblings than twins. On his second album, released in 2018, came a more decidedly danceable sound, possibly the best ever use of a GarageBand preset, and a new persona, for whom the record was named: Chris.
