Sébastien Tellier

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Sébastien Tellier is an exceptional, highly personal & intimate artist echoing such other one-offs as Robert Wyatt, Syd Barrett or Serge Gainsbourg.

His first LP, L’incroyable vérité (The Incredible Truth) (2001), was a fantastical pop album, which careered from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in some playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners to only listen to the album by candle light and won a tight band of adherents, who fell for his lush, humorous compositions. Standout track, Fantino, was chosen by Sofia Coppola for the Lost in Translation soundtrack.

Sebastien followed this with Politics (2005), which, like his third studio album Sexuality (2008), took single term as both its title and theme. The disc dealt with ways of power and governance, in as much as it discussed the relative merits of genocide versus ketchup, as well as the tennis-playing opportunities presented by the Berlin Wall. Politics’ most prominent song was La Ritournelle, a sublime, string-led tune, which featured Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen, some eighteen months before he joined Damon Albarn for The Good the bad and the queen. La Ritournelle’s international success transformed Sebastien’s life professionally, sexually and domestically. “Many things have changed since La Ritournelle,” he says with a laugh, “now I’m living in a new apartment, I have a new girlfriend and a really beautiful sofa.”

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Divine	2,220
–	2	Add this track to your playlist La Ritournelle	1,674
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Roche	852
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Sexual Sportswear	760
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Kilometer	678
1	6	Add this track to your playlist Look	651
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Pomme	625
1	8	Add this track to your playlist Une Heure	548
1	9	Add this track to your playlist Fantino	524
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–	11	Add this track to your playlist Fingers Of Steel	512
–	12	Add this track to your playlist L'Amour Et La Violence	500
–	13	Add this track to your playlist Manty	473
–	14	Add this track to your playlist Le Long De La Riviere Tendre	456
–	15	Add this track to your playlist Broadway	269
–	16	Add this track to your playlist League Chicanos	253
4	17	Add this track to your playlist Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix)	190
2	17	Add this track to your playlist Universe	190
2	19	Add this track to your playlist Divine (Danger Remix)	189
2	20	Add this track to your playlist Wonderafrica	188

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1	1	Add this track to your playlist Divine	15,242
1	2	Add this track to your playlist La Ritournelle	13,066
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Sexual Sportswear	9,057
1	4	Add this track to your playlist Roche	8,967
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Kilometer	7,911
2	6	Add this track to your playlist Fantino	7,726
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Look	7,474
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Pomme	7,122
–	9	Add this track to your playlist Une Heure	6,701
–	10	Add this track to your playlist Elle	6,377
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Fingers Of Steel	6,254
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Manty	5,980
–	13	Add this track to your playlist L'Amour Et La Violence	5,439
1	14	Add this track to your playlist Le Long De La Riviere Tendre	3,916
2	15	Add this track to your playlist Broadway	3,572
–	16	Add this track to your playlist League Chicanos	3,485
3	17	Add this track to your playlist Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix)	3,221
1	18	Add this track to your playlist Universe	2,602
1	19	Add this track to your playlist Bye Bye	2,598
1	20	Add this track to your playlist Wonderafrica	2,517
1	21	Add this track to your playlist Slow Lynch	2,514
1	22	Add this track to your playlist Mauer	2,114
1	23	Add this track to your playlist Black douleur	2,004
1	24	Add this track to your playlist La tuerie	1,959
1	25	Add this track to your playlist La Ballade du Georges	1,768
–	26	Add this track to your playlist La dolce vita	1,663
1	27	Add this track to your playlist Zombi	1,588
1	28	Add this track to your playlist Bye-bye	1,569
6	29	Add this track to your playlist Divine (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)	1,489
–	30	Add this track to your playlist Ketchup vs Genocide	1,393
–	31	Add this track to your playlist Benny	1,381
1	32	Add this track to your playlist Kissed by You	1,333
4	33	Add this track to your playlist Classic	1,258
2	34	Add this track to your playlist Dixi	1,206
1	35	Add this track to your playlist Grec	1,092
8	36	Add this track to your playlist Divine (Danger Remix)	1,047
2	37	Add this track to your playlist Oh malheur chez O'Malley	999
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