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Approved: Yelle

By | Published on Tuesday 14 October 2014

Yelle

Three and half years on from their second album, ‘Safari Disco Club’, French pop trio Yelle released the follow-up ‘Complètement Fou’ at the tail end of last month. The record sees the group team up with US producer Dr Luke – who discovered them after they remixed Katy Perry’s ‘Hot N Cold’, which he produced and co-wrote. As well as lending his glossy production style to the album, he also signed them to his Sony imprint, Kemosabe Records.

For all the slick pop-ness of it, Yelle have not let slip their vision for the project – most notable their continued refusal to switch their lyrics to English to make them more palatable to a global pop audience. While that might possibly seem like a mistake, they seem pretty happy with how they’re doing, given that the album’s title track describes the success they’ve so far found in the US – starting with supporting Katy Perry there in 2011 – as ‘completely crazy’.

Check out the video for ‘Complètement Fou’ here:



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