''Personne d'autre'' is the 28th and final studio album by French singer
Françoise Hardy. It was released in April 2018 under
Parlophone/
Warner Music.
Personne d’autre features 10 original songs, including one sung in English, "You’re My Home" penned by
Yael Naim
Yael Naim ( he, יעל נעים, born 6 February 1978) is a French-born Israeli singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single " New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song pe ...
, a cover of
Michel Berger’s "Seras-tu là", and an adaption of Finnish band
Poets Of The Fall’s ‘Sleep’, titled as "Dors mon ange"
[Far Out Staf]
Françoise Hardy to release new studio album "Personne d'autre"
'' Far Out Magazine'', Retrieved on 07 May 2018.
Background
According to Hardy, she hadn't planned to release an album, but after she heard "Sleep" by Finnish band
Poets of the Fall, she showed it to her friend
Erick Benzi, who had similar melodies at that time, and it inspired her to write some lyrics.
Meanwhile,
La Grande Sophie
Sophie Huriaux (born July 18, 1969 in Thionville), better known by her stage name La Grande Sophie, is a French singer-songwriter who got her start in the mid-1990s in the Paris alternative scene.
Biography Childhood
Sophie lived the whole of h ...
, who knew that she started writing again, sent her the song "Le Large" (Sailing Away) out of the blue, and she got another haunting melody from Pascale Daniel, then a song by
Yael Naim
Yael Naim ( he, יעל נעים, born 6 February 1978) is a French-born Israeli singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single " New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song pe ...
brought some tears to her eyes.
Track listing
Certifications
References
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Françoise Hardy albums
2018 albums
French-language albums