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“Gender Is A Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer” “Chris” is hard-nosed and irrepressible, a coiled spring unbound.” –New York Times
“The resulting album is an electric blend of unforgettable imagery, emotional depth, and lurid, sizzling pop-funk.” – 7.9 – Pitchfork
“Critics’ darling Christine and the Queens.” – Variety
“…deliciously limpid R&B. It’s sexy and smart, camp and earnest, butch and femme.” – GQ
“the next great outsider-pop cult star. ’80s electronica, ’90s G-funk and classic Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis beats.” – Billboard
“…her stuttering vocal cadence recalls the very best of Michael Jackson.” – PAPER
“pop music that truly matters” – 5* – The Guardian
“One of the best and most life-affirming [albums] of the year.” –Sunday Times Culture
“a subversive pop masterpiece – that somehow sounds effortless, too” –5* – NME
LISTEN AND BUY CHRIS
Christine and The Queens today releases her already highly acclaimed second album, Chris. Featuring the singles“Girlfriend”, which she performed live with Dâm-Funk andThe Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon HEREand “5 dollars,” and available in English and French language versions, Chris is available in digital and physical formats, including double CD and vinyl versions, as well as limited edition box sets, courtesy of Because Music.
Chris was written, arranged and performed by Christine and the Queens. She discusses the album here with New York Times, NPR World Cafe and Pitchfork Song By Song for instance, and it is the follow up to her already-iconic debut record Chaleur Humaine / Christine and the Queens, released to near-universal acclaim in France in 2014 and the UK in 2016, and selling more than 1.3 million copies to date.
“Chaleur Humaine was about teenage years, most of it,” says Christine.“Loneliness, really true feelings, and there is a softness in the way I wrote as well, because I was properly introducing myself.”
Chris arrives on different terms. “It gets to be a bit more exhilarating, because I get to say, okay, I’ve been introduced now. I get to be more confident, and it matches what happened in my life as a woman.”
She says the first record turned her from a reclusive, bookish young woman writing for herself into “an athlete performer, which is something I always wanted to live, but it happened. Then suddenly I’m out in the open and I’m having more experiences, meeting people, having relationships, and stories are happening to me. All of a sudden, you’re a real grownass woman.”
“The second album could have been me finding a fancy producer in LA and doing the pop shit,” she laughs, “but actually, no. I wanted to make it even more personal, if it’s possible.”
TOUR DATES:
Thu 10.11 – LUXEMBOURG – ROCKHAL
Fri 10.12 – BRUXELLES – FOREST NATIONAL
Sat 10.13 – AMSTERDAM – AFAS LIVE
Mon 10.15 – BERLIN – COLUMBIAHALLE
Wed 10.17 – STOCKHOLM – NOBELBERGET
Tue 10.23 – SEATTLE – THE SHOWBOX
Fri 10.26 – OAKLAND – FOX THEATER
Sat 10.27 – LOS ANGELES – THE WILTERN
Wed 10.31 – NEW YORK – BROOKLYN STEEL – SOLD OUT
Thu 11.01 – NEW YORK – BROOKLYN STEEL – SOLD OUT
Fri 11.02 – PHILADELPHIA – UNION TRANSFER
Sun 11.04 – WASHINGTON – 9:30 CLUB
Mon 11.05 – TORONTO – THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL
Tue 11.06 – MONTREAL – PLACE BELL
Sat 11.17 – BOURNEMOUTH – BIC
Tue 11.20 – LONDON – EVENTIM APOLLO – SOLD OUT
Wed 11.21 – LONDON – EVENTIM APOLLO – SOLD OUT
Fri 11.23 – GLASGOW – ROYAL CONCERT HALL
Sat 11.24 – EDINBURGH – USHER HALL
Mon 11.26 – BIRMINGHAM – O2 ACADEMY
Tue 11.27 – MANCHESTER – O2 APOLLO – SOLD OUT
Wed 11.28 – MANCHESTER – O2 APOLLO
Fri 11.30 – DUBLIN – RDS
Tue 12.04 – NANTES – ZENITH
Wed 12.05 – BORDEAUX – METROPOLE ARENA
Thu 12.06 – MONTPELLIER – ZENITH SUD
Tue 12.11 – GENEVE – ARENA
Wed 12.12 – STRASBOURG – ZENITH
Fri 12.14 – LYON – HALLE TONY GARNIER
Sat 12.15 – TOULOUSE – ZENITH
Tue 12.18 – PARIS – ACCORHOTELS ARENA – SOLD OUT
Wed 12.19 – PARIS – ACCORHOTELS ARENA
ALBUM TRACKLISTING
English language version:
1. Comme si
2. Girlfriend (feat. Dâm-Funk) HERE
3. The walker
4. Doesn’t matter HERE
5. 5 dollars HERE
6. Goya Soda
7. Damn (what must a woman do)
8. What’s-her-face
9. Feel so good
10. Make some sense
11. The stranger
French language version:
1. Comme si on s’aimait
2. Damn, dis-moi (feat. Dâm-Funk)
3. La marcheuse HERE
4. Doesn’t matter (voleur de soleil)
5. 5 dols
6. Goya ! Soda !
7. Follarse
8. Machin-chose
9. Bruce est dans le brouillard
10. Le G
11.Les yeux mouillés
12. L’étranger (voleur d’eau)
http://christineandthequeens.com
http://www.because.tv
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