BSIDE Chris by Christine and The Queens

Featured Artist: Christine and the Queens

Featured Vinyl: Chris

 

Alexis’ Hot Pick 

What’s-her-face (english) / Machin-chose (french)

Sam’s Hot Pick

Girlfriend

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CREDITS

Created and Hosted by Alexis Naylor

Co-Host: Sam Timmerman

Music by Alexis Naylor & Ruby Miguel

Voiceover: Ruby Miguel

Edited and Produced by Ruby Miguel

 

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 Hello from the 

How are you? 

Oh, very well, my friend. How are you? 

I'm very well too. I am enjoying the vibe that's coming through the screen and this week there's so much dancing going on. I love it. Little 

bit. I'm a happy little bear for multitude of reasons.

One 'cause I'm mostly happy Beth, but I have an amazing offering for us. Chat about this week. 

I cannot wait. I have been melting into this one. It's been so much fun. 

My offering this week is a vinyl called Chris by Christine and the Queen 

Second album, I believe. 

Coolest  artwork, telling the story of what they're going for. Artwork is just bang on. It's on point for exactly what they're trying to convey with this record.

It's so cool. 

I have fallen in love with this record many moons ago for a multitude of reasons. One. Because Christine and the Queens did essentially a double of this record. So there are all English tracks and then I think all but one of them have a French version. by golly, is it stunning.

So if you actually find this online, you will. Get all 23 tracks English and French. For me, I was very sad in the sense that, one, I got to have this vinyl love it, but I couldn't find the French version that sold out everywhere that I went looking. So very sad. But I'll take what I can get. It's fine.

What was your top pick? 

Okay. I have to qualify here before I went from my top pick. The first time I had listened through this, or the first time I got down to sit, to listen to this was in a hotel room at about 2:00 AM and I think I just didn't get to bed until another hour and a half afterwards because I only listened to a couple of tracks and they did not leave my brain.

They're 

so good. 

It was, ah. What the, just that initial opening of Come see and I just went, oh my God, this is amazing. Just 

slop these offerings. I'm just like opening you up to a very different world. It's 

so much fun. The production on this is 

very cool, 

immaculate. It is a little bit synth wave.

It's a little bit poppy. It's got. I cannot describe how much fun I had listening through this. Again, music brain took off, so I started listening to the lyrics about a week later. But Quick Hot Pick was Girlfriend. 

Yes, 

because, and again, it took me the entirety of the last two weeks trying to pick. A hot pick.

 

For the pure reason, if I had so much fun with the record, this one sat really grooved, sat really nicely and chilled out after I'd listened through the whole thing once. Coming back to the record again. After listening through it. Then getting to chill down to this was really cool.

The message in its powerful as and it's, I've really love the fact that it will actually hit differently depending on how you're coming to it. But yeah, just sit back and melt into it. That's all I can say. That's the good version. 

And one of the tracks that has a corresponding English and French.

Yes. Yes. 

Yeah, it's stunning being the way the 

vocal work is incredible. Yeah, if you're, I have to say, if you're a fan of Prince 

 

 

if you're a fan of Prince, 85% of these tracks are right up your alley. And they label because music, I had a quick little dig. They rereleased prince's, MPL sound as a limited edition.

Fairly recently. So yeah, they've got that link and a lot of their artists have a similar kind of sound. They've got some Tame Impala on there. Major laser is on because music as well, label outta France. So much fun. Do you have a hot pick? 

 

I do have a hot pick. And just like what you were saying, super hard to just choose one out of the 23 tracks essentially. But you've got the English and French versions. If I had to roll it down, it would be what's her face?

What a 

great title. Okay, I've got a few points here of why this is my favorite. So let me roll them out. I have got one, it's got real bare bones production, which I froth at. It's got this really heavy pulsing bass and absolutely adore bvs that are like uber haunting and ghosty that really support a main vocal one froth at that.

Two, her main vocal line, holy hell, those runs are to die for. And they just are so emotive and they make me sad. They just make me sad, and I feel all the feels, and I fricking love it. 

I love this because it makes me hurt. 

Oh my God, it makes me hurt so much and I'm all for it. Oh my God. I don't know if I'm a sucker for punishment, but I search for songs and albums that have that in it.

It's just, oh, because it, it transports you to a sad memory or time. Like it just, I don't mind visiting those places and being in that and a song like this. Oh, I always think it's songs like this. It's like when you are in your darkest, you'll search for songs like this. Or you're a sucker for punishment like me, and I just wanna revisit a sad moment.

Exactly before you got to your third point. I was really interested in when you're talking about the way, the reason why this one spoke to you, and it sounds a lot like your track casualty. 

Oh, really? Real 

parallels there. Soon as I listened to it, I went, I've heard this before. 

Do you know what that is?

What, but if you go back and listen to 

casualty, 

what a compli Hey wait. Hang on. Wait. Is this a compliment because it sounds like it, or is this to say that I ripped it off? 'cause I know my shape is, oh no, you are. 

I'm not accusing you of plagiarism whatsoever. I realize that now, but no.

This is. It sounds like your sound in that chin. Oh 

wow. What? It's oh, thank you. 

Yeah, it, I can see exactly why it spoke to you. Yeah. And people listening, go and check out these two side by side. Listen to what's her face by Christine and the queens, and then go and put casualty on by the lady who's sitting in a screen in front of me.

You're too kind brother, too kind. Okay, so my third and final thing to say about this it won't be my final, but I read somewhere that she did the final vocals in one bloody take. 

 

Bam. 

There is a lot there. 

There's a lot 

there. There's there. 

One of the write-ups that I read talks about how they wanted to emulate the feeling of crying from the inside.

Yeah. Oh, and really, again, hits that emotive button and I'm all for it. 

Yes. When the creative process is deliberately telling a story, not just being there and recording something, oh, actually, your a hundred percent method of creating this sound is. Part of the storytelling. 

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. There was a couple of quotes that I found and I'd love to read them.

Yeah. One is that no matter what, you eventually become free, empowered, the lingering feeling of once an outsider, always an outsider. Was one of the quotes that I found from Christine and the Queens about this song. Wow. Okay. And another was, it's like a wound that sometimes wakes up bleeds, even when something really small happens a side eye to a feeling of betrayal.

Wow. 

 

 

No wonder why it speaks to me. This is 

All me.

there's just so much in this record that Yeah, if you are listening. Do yourself a favor and listen to this one. It is stunning. Absolutely stunning. 

And read some interviews or read some articles about the record while you're listening to this one.

There is so much detail and depth and consideration in how they created this on top of making it sound fricking amazing. 

That's right. 

There's depth to this one that I've not encountered in a long time.

Well said, brother. Until next time for the next offering, 

I cannot wait.