Kevin Bronson on November 19th, 2009

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French songstress (and actress) Charlotte Gainsbourg is preparing her first album in four years, “IRM,” and she has some pretty heavyweight collaborators: Nigel Godrich, Jarvis Cocker, Air and … Beck, who produces and duets with Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter on the song “Heaven Can Wait.” I’m not sure I grasp the meaning of any of the video’s vignettes, but they’re all in slow-motion, so maybe you’ll have time to figure it out.

Speaking of Beck, the third installment of his Record Club is up. The series features Beck and random collaborators getting together in one day to cover an album, and this time it’s “Oar,” the 1969 solo outing from Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane/Moby Grape). The collaborators? Well, not so random, actually: Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell, among others. The results, not surprisingly, are remarkable.