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With all the nostalgic interest in 80s punk and new wave, it’s surprising that there haven’t been more loungey covers concept albums like the Nouvelle Vague set, which presents bossa-lite revisions of your favourite tunes by the Clash, Public Image Limited, the Cure, Depeche Mode and Killing Joke sweetly crooned Claudine Longet-style with a vaguely French lilt. Admittedly, not all of it works, but when it clicks – as with Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart and the Dead Kennedys’ Too Drunk To Fuck – the results are highly entertaining. Soon to be as common in hipster hangouts as surly staff and overpriced martinis.
