7.9
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#2,986
All Time
18
Tracks
“When Christine and the Queens first appeared in the anglophone world in 2015, the name was an alias for Héloïse Letissier: a French artist with an extraordinary line in immaculately cool, obliquely catchy, 80s-flavoured synthpop that mused on queer identity. By 2018, Letissier had become Chris – the eponymous, androgynous protagonist of her funky second album. Then, last year, the musician announc”
“PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE is a sprawling odyssey embellished with Christine and the Queens' epic theatrics and artful references”
“On the masterful 'Paranoïa, Angels, True Love,' the French artist makes sense of grief and communes with heavenly bodies as he climbs toward transcendence”
“Christine and the Queens’ follow-up to 2022’s Redcar les adorables étoiles is conceived as “a prayer towards the self” and, like its predecessor, makes for a dark, inscrutable listen. Still grieving his mother, Redcar’s (aka Chris) lyrics are strewn with references to angels, though it’s not explicit whether they denote a benevolent or harmful presence. It’s just as tricky getting a foothold on th”
“Inspired by Angels in America, the French artist’s latest album is a raw, dreamlike, 20-song epic that still feels like a first draft.”
“In 2014, the artist known as Christine and the Queens didn’t introduce himself to the world so much as grab and shake it by the shoulders. With his debut ‘Chaleur Humaine’, and subsequently 2018’s ‘Chris’, he, a lonely man, made music for fellow loners – a vivid and exquisite loneliness as generative and back-building as heartbreak. With pain as his motor, he spoke the language of intense yearning”
