The album is officially released on 5th Feb 2007.
This CD will be available to buy from the 17th Jan 2007 ahead of its release date!
**Also available the 7" vinyl featuing Nouvelle Vague – Come On Eileen and David Shrigley - What I ate!!**
You are entering the Twilight Zone; a cellar smoky with Gitanes, aromatic like Pastis and atmospheric likes a Bogey film noir. It could be the ’50s or it could be the ’80s or it might not be either. But, damn, it sounds good. It’s the wonderful and frightening world of Nouvelle Vague.
If you want to know where the heads of Nouvelle Vague are at, Late Night Tales gives you a wee glimpse through the twitching curtains of their lustrous minds. If acid house had exploded in a fetid basement in Rue Hachette rather than the repressed and sweaty confines of Thatcher’s Britain, it might have sounded something like this. Torch songs, songs of redemption and remorse, heartbreak and uplift. Mood music of elevators and elevation.
The French, naturally, represent. Avril, whose Members Only album was recorded at the same time as Nouvelle Vague, is here, along with Vague contributors Camille Dalmais, who sings Nicole as Les Petroleuses and Phoebe Killdeer whose own Chaos is included. Doyenne of the early ’80s art crowd and French icon Isabelle Antena makes an appearance with her ethereal bossa beat Le Poissons Des Mers Du Sud, while fellow Disque du Crépuscule labelmate Gavin Bryars, after Michael Nyman, Britain’s second most famous QPR-supporting minimalist composer, makes an appearance with the arresting and arrestable Vespertine Park.
Time drifts and sways as synths and voices occasionally focus and smear. Pale Fountains, beauty lost and extinguished from history, are exhumed here alongside the vastly underrated Tones On Tail. The Special AKA, Jerry Dammers last stand, as cutting as a 10” Sabatier with What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend. Art Bears lead the Art Attack, the cavalry in the form of David Sylvian, whose brittle power on A Fire In The Forest startles, while Anja Garbarek – daughter of Jan – sweeps up the leftovers. If that wasn’t enough, Nouvelle Vague deliver the coup de grace with a spectacular reading of Come On Eileen (long-threatened, but finally delivered). David Shrigley shrigleys proceedings like a post-modern Major Bloodnok. Teach us to be happy, teach us control, this is the movement of fear, the wonderful and frightening world of Nouvelle Vague.
The album is officially released on 5th Feb 2007.
This CD will be available to buy from the 15th Jan 2007 ahead of its release date!
**Also available the 7" vinyl featuing Nouvelle Vague – Come On Eileen and David Shrigley - What I ate!!**
You can check out this wonderful selection below. CD

. The Special AKA – (What I Like Most About You Is Your) Girlfriend Click to listen
. Nouvelle Vague – Come On Eileen Click to listen
. Os Mutantes – Baby Click to listen
. The Pale Fountains - Unless Click to listen
. Charlie Rich – San Francisco Is A Lonely Town Click to listen
. Tones On Tail – Movement Of Fear Click to listen
. Phoebe Killdeer – Chaos Click to listen
. Avril - Urban Serenade Click to listen
. Shirley Horn – And I Love him Click to listen
. Gavin Bryars – The Vespertine Park Click to listen
. David Sylvian – A Fire In The Forest Click to listen
. Art Bears – Civilization Click to listen
. Peggy Lee / Sy Oliver & His Orchestra – You’re My Thrill Click to listen
. Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix Click to listen
. Isabelle Antena – Le Poisson Des Mers Du Sud Click to listen
. Anja Garbarek - The Last Trick Click to listen
. Les Petroleuses – Nicole Click to listen
. Cibelle - Phoenix Click to listen
. This Mortal Coil – You And Your Sister Click to listen
. Julie London - Lonely Girl Click to listen
. David Shrigley - What I ate Click to listen