Clarika

Earlier this month, I posted a track from breezy-voiced Clarika's La Fille Tu Sais-album. Today Mr. Postman brought me her brandspankingnew disque, Joker. I haven't heard it properly to give an expert opinion, although I can say it's pretty versatile, at some point she really rocks out, dude. Listen to Ne Me Demande Pas, for example (1). As if she's giving in to the fact that she a deadringer for Polly Jean Harvey. But she can be very tender as well, listen to La Bimbo (2)(it's the first track I listened to. I mean, c'mon, a title like that?).
Clarika (from Haute-Savoie) has a history of marching bands and majorettes, and made four albums under the wings of Jean-Jacques Nyssen, who writes and arranges the music. It's certainly a tradition, this Guy On The Background with filles sourires, from Gainsbourg to Lou Depryck to Philippe Katerine to Benjamin Biolay.

Hear Here 1.

Hear Here 2.