IRM

Pop · 2009 · 16 tracks

IRM

Charlotte Gainsbourg

A clinical yet soulful collaboration with Beck. Mechanical rhythms and medical imagery meet Gainsbourg's signature whisper in a dense, art-pop fever dream.

December 3, 2009 · Because Music

A clinical, rhythmic exploration of mortality that remains strangely intimate and warm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks

01

Master’s Hand

2:49

02

IRM

2:35

03

Trick Pony

2:53

04

Greenwich Mean Time

2:26

05

Dandelion

3:21

06

Le Chat du Café des Artistes

4:17

07

In the End

2:00

08

Vanities

3:38

09

Time of the Assassins

2:46

10

Heaven Can Wait

2:41

11

Me and Jane Doe

3:50

12

Voyage

4:05

13

La Collectionneuse

5:18

14

Heaven Can Wait (Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear remix)

2:15

15

Heaven Can Wait (Jackson « Escalator » mix)

7:06

16

IRM (Diskjokke remix)

8:32

Moments Worth Listening For

the rhythmic clatter of the title track mimicking the mechanical thrum of an MRI machine

the sudden burst of brass and beck's backing vocals on the infectious heaven can wait

the haunting string arrangement on le chat du café des artistes that feels like 60s cinema

Reviews

BBC Music

Pitchfork

AllMusic

Where This Album Departs

How does IRM sound next to the rest of Charlotte Gainsbourg's catalogue?

Percussion+4.0σ

The instrumentation foregrounds percussion far more than the catalogue usually does.

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