RoBERT

She worked with novelist Amelie Nothomb, with composer Danny Elfman and with director Michel Gondry, made six albums but managed to stay under my radar until now: RoBERT. You can tell by this spelling of Myriam Roulet's stagename that she started out in the nineties (remember dEUS, fIREHOSE, et al?). RoBERT, who sports very long flowing hair, makes dreamy pop, with lush instrumentation and a firm slab of gothicness - she likes to dress up in Marie-Antoinette-like gowns. If she steers clear from housebeats (most remixes I heard were bloody awful) but focusses on her delicate, very feminine and husky voice, I'm all ears. Her songs make perfect soundtracks to dark-undertoned Japanese cartoons, or animés. Her most recent album is called Six Pieds Sous Terre (released November '05) is so feérique that it becomes absurd at some points. Still, nice Marie Laforêt-cover.

RoBERT - Triste et Sale
RoBERT - Les Couleurs
RoBERT - Prière Pour Aller Au Paradis (Marie Laforêt-cover)