★★☆☆☆
Dita Von Teese is a glamorous burlesque star, actress and impeccable queen of vintage style, but a singer she is not. She has gone for a whispery, semi-spoken vocal approach in the style of Jane Birkin on her debut album, on which she teams up with the French producer-songwriter Sébastien Tellier. With his flowing locks and billowing silk shirt, Tellier looks on the cover like the kind of cult leader who ends up having sex with all his followers.
The problem is that Teese sounds extremely bored, while wrapping her Michigan tones around a bit of French on Parfum or detailing forbidden encounters on Rendez-Vous.
Tellier offers a suitably soft-core keyboard soundtrack, of the kind that wouldn’t be out of place on one