Nouvelle Vague Presents – New Wave
With a curator’s eye, Nouvelle Vague view the songbook of 80’s post-punk and new wave as Ella Fitzgerald would her Cole Porter musical sheets: as a source of inspiration and as a vehicle for re-interpretation. With two previous albums offering cocktail/bossa nova treatment to such classics as Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, Nouvelle Vague's Marc Collin and DJ Gilles LeGuen now re-position their spotlight onto the bands they love, and select a two disc set of tracks as their new wave heroes delivery their own cover versions, thick in synth pop. Mixing the popular with the head scratching obscure, Devo’s instantly recognizable “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” offsets The Comateens take on “Summer In The City.” With any various artists collection, a few tracks do fall short, and are enjoyable sheerly for their kitsch factor. But those are few amongst the 24 tracks here, and to have the Slit’s bouncy take on Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” and The Original Mirrors new romantic on the Supreme’s “Reflection”, there is enough fun here for past and future generations of youth.
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