Rest

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s fourth studio album “Rest” releases November 17, 2017. All tracks on the album are produced by SebastiAn (Frank Ocean, Kavinsky), except “Rest,” composed and co-written by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and “Songbird in a Cage,” composed and written by Paul McCartney. The album also features collaborations with Owen Pallett, Connan Mockasin, and others.The album’s first single (which shares the name of the album) is produced and co- written with Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. “Rest” is a poignant, modern lullaby-like song, steering Gainsbourg toward a forensically focused approach to lyric writing. “Those were the first words that I actually sang on the album,” she explains. “I came in with all my bunches of lyrics… It was too much, really, and Guy-Man was saying, ‘you can’t say all that, you have to simplify it,’ and he reduced it to three words! It felt so innocent in a way, but it was exactly what I needed at that time.” It turns out there are actually a few more than three words present in the song, including an homage to “Walking in the Air,” from the 1982 animated special The Snowman (a Christmas childhood favourite of the artist’s). That said, nude simplicity of language on the track highlights the complexity of a single word: “Rest,” the first word inscribed on a headstone (Rest in Peace) and a word which, in French, means “stay,” used to plead with a lover not to leave, or with a memory not to fade