Sexuality sounds very much like what I’d expect to hear from American Apparel CEO Dov Charney were he ever to move to France and record a synth-pop album: sleazy, a little derivative yet surprisingly stylish. I’ve been enjoying this record for the past few months but haven’t been motivated to write about it, mainly because there are only so many jokes I can make about the Gallic appetite for sexual lecherousness (this is a total lie, I can make Marquis De Sade jokes all day long, don’t push me people). Luckily, my ex-Stylus colleague, the very tall and very technically precise Andrew Gaerig wrote a very good review of the record for Pitchfork today, contrasting Tellier to the G.O.A.T. of all French sexual deviants, Serge Gainsbourg. Read the review, download the tracks below and ruminate on the inevitability of the French coining a term as ubiquitous as, “menage a trois.”

Download:
MP3: Sebastian Tellier-”Roche” (Removed by Label Request)
MP3: Sebastian Tellier-”Kilometer” (Removed By Label Request)

MP3: Sebastian Tellier-”Divine (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)”

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