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Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin.Their name means "new wave" in French, and refers simultaneously to the French New Wave cinema movement of the 1960s, to the new wave music movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which provides many of the songs that the band covers, and to bossa nova (Portuguese for "new wave"), a musical style that the band ...
Nouvelle Vague is the debut studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague.It was first released on 9 August 2004 on Peacefrog Records.. The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era.
3 (also known as NV3) is the third studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. It was released 16 June 2009 on Peacefrog Records. As with their previous releases, the album consists entirely of cover versions of post-punk and new wave songs from the 1970s and 1980s. Four of the tracks are performed as duets, featuring the song's original ...
"Making Plans for Nigel" is a song by English rock band XTC, ... 2004 – Nouvelle Vague, Nouvelle Vague; 2010 – The Bad Shepherds, By Hook or By Crook; Charts
The reviews for the band's self-titled first album, released in 2004, had been generally positive.In contrast, Bande à Part received more mixed reviews.AllMusic drew an explicit comparison between the two albums, writing, "It was something of a small miracle that the first Nouvelle Vague album managed to avoid the seemingly inherent kitsch of covering new wave classics as slinky bossa nova.
Acoustic is a live album by the French covers band Nouvelle Vague, recorded at a concert at the Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita in Barreiro, Portugal.All songs are acoustic versions of songs from the band's studio albums Nouvelle Vague, Bande à Part and 3, except for "Sweet Dreams" and "Relax" which do not appear on any of those albums.
In 2008, Alea met Marc Collin, the founder of Nouvelle Vague. She opened for the group in Miami, and officially joined them as a lead singer in 2009. [2] She sings a cover of the Cocteau Twins song "Athol Brose" on Nouvelle Vague's 2016 album I Could Be Happy. [6] After 8 years of touring with the band, she left the group in 2017. [7]
She sings in both French and English, after years of covering English songs for Nouvelle Vague. [3] Her influences include The Pixies , Sonic Youth , PJ Harvey and Nick Drake . In April 2009, Pain released her first solo album entitled My Name featuring artists such as Julien Doré , Phoebe Killdeer and Thomas Dybdahl .