L'Autre [Import]

Mylene Farmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Int'l
• ASIN: B000006YN2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,176 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Le parfum sucre de vos roses s'evapore, April 26, 2000

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loteq (Regensburg/Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Autre (Audio CD)

Mylene and her musical collaborator Laurent shift gears slightly. With the exception of "Pas de doute" and the super-catchy single hit "Desenchantee", they're obviously no longer interested in producing items for the dancefloor. Instead, "L'autre" is a concept album which fuses new age sensibilities and ambient sounds (similar to the highly successful Enigma) with traditional French chanson ("Je t'aime melancolie") and downtempo, mighty ballads ("Agnus Dei", "L'autre", "Regrets"). Fans of Mylene's earlier, club-oriented songs could be disappointed, but the integrity and consistency of this album is impressive. Lyrics are even darker and more personal than on previous albums, and together with the transparent, thrilling musical backing, it's a great body of work. There's nothing else quite like this in music, so a five-star rating is justified. I used to listen to "L'autre" when I was reading Stephen King's book "It", and it made the story even more intense and frightening. It's just Mylene's best album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, January 6, 2000

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Alex Korneyko (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Autre (Audio CD)

It's very hard to say something about music and videos of Mylene Farmer. To understand why you have to hear and to see. She is, to my opinion, one of the brightest stars in the sky of the modern pop universe. Almost every her song (and not only on this CD) is really what heaps of space dust around can only dream of. And this fact makes me very sad. She creates a music only a few in the world can create, but is almost unknown outside Europe. She is often called 'a French Madonna' and I'm quite sure if she sang in English, she would be known worldwide not less than Madonna. She is one of the best artists ever in euro-pop style and she is definitely one the best French singers of all times.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not her best, but better than anyone else's, April 26, 2003

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James M. Freedberg "michaelfsb" (Salem, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: L'Autre (Audio CD)

I don't agree with Mr. Turk about L'AUTRE being similar to Enigma -- except in the sense that Farmer & Boutonnat have taken back FROM Enigma the sound that Enigma took from Farmer's previous CD, AINSI SOIT-JE ("L;horloge" especially). I don't agree with Mr. Lukasziewicz that this is Farmer's best CD : AINSI SOIT-JE has a richer palette of subject matter, ANAMORPHOSEE has better songs, and INNAMORAMENTO has better everything. Still, who else out there has a song as scary -- yet rhythmic -- as "Psychiatric," or an art-rock Eurodisco ennui song as encompassing as "Desenchantee"? (recently covered, incredibly, by Irish chanteuse Kate Ryan -- amazing!) As for the downbeat, darkly orchestrated ballads in which this CD indulges, they're simply the best that "Goth" has to offer -- far profounder, darker, and more deterministic and lush than any of the predictable Nordic stuff that aspires to EBM/darkside stardom. Mylene is a unique artist, the most influential French variete performer in the world -- and L'AUTRE has much to offer;' but now go listen to INNAMORENTO -- not to mention the fantastic, recent songs she's done : "C'est une belle journee," "Effets seconfaires," "L'histoire d'une fee," "Pardonne-moi." If you wanna hear "best," these are they!