A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Sébastien Tellier

  • Sebastien Tellier, Paris, France
Sexuality, the latest album from French singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sebastien Tellier, takes advantage of unsuspecting listeners with its slow tempos, synths, and French accents. The 2008 release is R&B meets IDM—inherently cheesy, utterly enthralling, and as over-the-top erotic as Metallica’s Death Magnetic is cartoonishly aggressive. Partial credit goes to Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, who produced Sexuality, which includes a seven-minute operatic allusion to Tellier’s striptease fantasies called “Sexual Sportswear.”

Updated 04/10/2009

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