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CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

“I’m not naive: I knew what I had done,” says Charlotte Gainsbourg of Rest , her fifth album, her first in six years, and first as a lyricist. Rest is an album fuelled by grief even in its most beautiful moments, something Gainsbourg has had to repeatedly explain. “I have been talking so much

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