Francoise Hardy - Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour* Exclusive interview with Franoise Hardy * Liner Notes by Kieron Tyler * First time available in the US * 180 gram vinyl housed in a deluxe Stoughton jacket Between 1962 and 1966, Franoise Hardy released one French language album per year. Each, strictly speaking, was eponymously titled, and each was collected from a series of contemporary four track, seven inch, picture sleeve EPs pop music's main format in France, known as le super 45. In them, we

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arranged with the intent to create a 3D stereo sound sensation of actually being in the room with the performers or instruments

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candidly revealing in the recent 4AD biography Facing The Other Way that this album wasn't just his favourite Cocteaus album but also his favourite all-time 4AD album and

creeping cyclical chords chugging and jangling melding into a summer of love guitar freakout