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| Released | 9 August 2004 | |||
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| Length | 46:30 | |||
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| Producer | Nouvelle Vague | |||
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Nouvelle Vague is the debut studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. It was first released on 9 August 2004 on Peacefrog Records.
The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era. The band's name is a play on words, new wave and bossa nova being the literal translations, in English and Portuguese respectively, of the French phrase Nouvelle Vague, which is itself a reference to the French cinema movement of the 1950s and 1960s.[1] The songs were recorded with female vocalists who had not previously heard the songs they would be covering.[2]
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