Continuing my history with Camille, this was the second song of her’s I discovered. It took just a couple of minutes Googling and comes from the same album as “Ta Douleur,” Le Fil – “the thread,” which in the album’s case is the vocal tone that continues throughout each song. It’s similar enough to see a connection with “Ta Douleur,” but different enough to continue to compel; chattier, more nervous and then flowering at the end into an operatic performance that feels like it came out of nowhere and provides an amazing, hilarious finale to the whole thing.
The version I actually heard first was a live one, with Camille and band performing the whole thing as performance art on Later with Jools Holland; there was something about watching the performance as a whole that left me smiling, curious and knowing that I had to buy the album, and discover more.
