Point de suture

Point de Suture
Studio album by Mylène Farmer
Released 25 August 2008
Recorded Brussels, Belgium
Paris, France
2007-2008
Genre Dance-pop, electro pop, disco, house, EDM, pop rock
Length 53:00
Producer Laurent Boutonnat
Mylène Farmer chronology
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
(2006)		 Point de Suture
(2008)		 N°5 on Tour
(2009)
Alternative cover
Collector edition
Singles from Point de Suture
  1. "Dégénération"
    Released: 19 June & 18 August 2008
  2. "Appelle mon numéro"
    Released: 3 November 2008
  3. "Si j'avais au moins..."
    Released: 16 February 2009
  4. "C'est dans l'air"
    Released: 27 April 2009
  5. "Sextonik"
    Released: 24 August 2009

Point de Suture is the seventh studio album by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer, and her 14th album overall. Preceded by the lead single "Dégénération", it was released digitally on 20 August 2008, then on CD five days later. The album is predominantly electronic dance music and, despite mixed reviews, it achieved commercial success on the French, Swiss, Belgian and Russian album charts. The five singles released from the album were all number ones in France.

Contents

Background

Pascal Nègre, president of Universal Music, officially announced on 28 January 2008 in the French newspaper Le Figaro that Farmer would release a new album in 2008.[1][2] The following days, this information was covered by many media that also said that it would have been entitled Onirisme.[3][4][5][6][7] At the time, it was announced that it would be composed of 11 tracks,[8] and it would be released for the last quarter of 2008.[9] Several song titles were relayed in the media, such as "Onirisme", "Faire... et défaire", "Dans ton antre", "Ma nature est...", "Excaliburia", "Who's Mylène ?", "Aux points cardinaux", "Je m'expose et m'impose", "Poésie visuelle", "The Witch of Dreams", "Voyage au bout de tes sens ", and it would also contain an acoustic version of Farmer's 1996 hit, "Rêver".[10][11][12] A rumor went around the Internet saying the first single would be "À propos de nous". But finally, Thierry Suc, one of the producers, announced on 21 May that it would be "Dégénération". It was scheduled to be released on radio on 19 June. At the time, he also said that the album was not yet finished.[13]

On 19 June, French radio RTL stated that the album would be released on 25 August. Finally, on 30 June, French internet store "Virginmega" revealed the name of the album, Point de suture, its cover and the track listing, and announced its release for 20 August.[14] On 31 July, the newspaper Le Parisien stated that the album would be released in two formats : digitally and as a mobil phone in a limited edition. According to its edition of 30 August 2008, a duet with David Bowie was originally scheduled for this album, but was eventually canceled because of health problems of the English singer.[15]

In December 2008, a limited collectible mobile phone edition (W980i) was released (2,000 numbered copies : 1,000 on the Internet + 1,000 at SFR Studios). This edition contained the album "Point de Suture", two remixes, a video, a making of, ringtones, visuals and themes of the singer.[16] "Si j'avais au moins..." was released as the 3rd single on 16 February. On 27 March, Radio NRJ revealed the fourth single from the album was "C'est dans l'air".

At the concerts in Douai (Gayant Expo) and in St. Petersburg, a remix of "Sextonik" by French DJ Tomer G was played. The DJ stated on his site that his remix was done for a single, thus revealing that "Sextonik" was the fifth single from the album.

Title and cover art

"All the stitches of the world cannot sew us again"
— Al Pacino, Carlito's Way

For the name of this album, Farmer drew her inspiration from a line of Al Pacino's in the 1993 film Carlito's Way, which appears inside the digipack edition of the CD: "All the stitches of the world cannot sew us again".[17] To promote the album, Farmer appeared on the TV news of 31 August, 8 pm, on TF1. Interviewed by Claire Chazal, she explained that she used the singular in the title of the album because it is (in French-language) a pun between "Stitch" (which evokes a hope) and "No suture" (which expresses a despair).[18] In an interview for French gay magazine Têtu Farmer confided that if somebody did not know her work, she would wish that this person learns to know her through the hidden track of the album, "Ave Maria", which she had previously performed in June 2008 during the funeral of the composer Frédéric Botton.[19]

The photos illustrating this album were made by a Japanese photographer named Tani Atsushi. The cover as well as the booklet show a doll covered with scars, with surgical instruments in the foreground. There is only one photo of Farmer inside the booklet, with her back turned.

Music and lyrics

This album was announced as being very different from the previous ones in musical and promotional terms.[20][21] About this album, Farmer explained during an interview : "If I compare it with the previous album Avant que l'ombre..., it will probably be more electronic... with many "up tempo" songs."[22] According to Thierry Suc, "in this album, there will be a little of all the universes that characterize Mylène's albums".[23] Critics noticed that it contains "melancholy ballads" (even if they are fewer on this album than on Avant que l'ombre...)[24] as well as "songs with electro/techno sounds"[25] and "electrodance" songs.[26]

The subjects in this album are "sexuality, uneasiness, mantras, coded plays on words",[27] "melancholy",[28] "extreme love, purity, loneliness",[29] "life, death, love tackled in turn with seriousness or humor".[24] The album also evokes "the resilience and the indelible scars of the childhood" with numerous quotations and literary references (Süskind, Schubert, Baudelaire...).[30]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic link
Antennaria link
Ciné Télé Revue link
Métro Canada link
Le Metro link
Le Soleil link
Le Télégramme link
Star Système link
Télé Star link
Voici link

The album received mixed reviews. La Voix du Nord published reviews from the singer's fans proving that the reactions are shared between "disappointed love and ecstasy".[31] La Meuse and 20 Minutes summed up many critics deeming this album is "nor completely failed nor completely exciting",[32] "without surprise but pleasant".[33]

On 17 January 2009, the album was awarded 'Francophone Album of the Year' on the 2009 NRJ Music Awards, broadcast on TF1.

Neutral reviews

According to Le Parisien, "a gothico-melancholic muddle fills some vaporous songs of the album". The newspaper blamed it for the lack of novelty and the "disappointing duet" with Moby, but also said that this one "shows itself finally effective when it accelerates the rhythm, takes up the sound, let itself overcame by the electro heart-beat".[34] Ouest-France said this album is "a true marketing blow", noting that "the electro turning point of the artist surprises, delights or disappoints..."[35] According to Metro, Point de Suture is "an electro-pop album without surprise".[36] After underlining the lack of promotion, French newspaper Le Figaro qualified this album as "massive", "discreet" and "commercial". It also stated that with this new album, "Farmer does not envisage a revolution or even a revelation", and that it has "a methodical faithfulness" to her previous works. It also reproached the "naivety of certain texts" and their "tendency for abstraction".[27] Libération said, throughout this album, "the music seems to be only a pretext in a whole declination of subsidiary yields" ; it contains "ten songs unwinding a ambient techno punctuated with ballads with voice of head without conviction".[37] For RFI Musique, this "disc [is] not really daring", "rather usual, even routine", which seems especially made for the French tour of the next year.[29] For Le Monde, this album constitutes "a slight disappointment" : it has a "dance rhythmic efficiency" but "a mere nothing of formal ambition is missing".[38] La Meuse, as well as Télé Moustique,[39] concluded that, with this album, "Farmer has definitively ceased to surprise".[40]

Negative reviews

Very critical, 20 Minutes stated the album "does not play either in the sobriety or in the sharpness. Abstruse lyrics, erotic allusions, vapid melodies or agreed electro: Mylène Farmer is not afraid of the ludicrous".[41] Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure described Point de Suture as "an album rather disjointed, without any real surprise, but containing some potential hits".[28] Le Journal du Dimanche deemed this "seventh studio disc confirms the breakdown of inspiration" of the duo, adding : "When we listen to the disc, we hesitate between distress and frank laugh". "Point de Suture oscillates between bad taste, streetwalkers melodies and noisy tunes", with a "poetry a mere nothing pretentious".[42] The Canadian musical critic Voir qualified this disc as "a pompous and overproduced, static and cold electro-pop album".[43] For Cité Gay, this album is "fair" and "kitsch".[44] And for Télé 2 Semaines, "the lyrics are naive, the electro-pop music foreseeable".[45]

Positive reviews

According to Le Matin, this disc "tries to reconcile all the publics of [the singer]". In it, "she combines all that which makes her strength: techno lightings, evident melodies, easy to remember, ballads touching straight to the heart, ambiguous texts". It also said that the last two songs are the best ones of the album.[46] Sud-Ouest deemed that Farmer "remains faithful to the universe and the sound that ensure her success since 1985".[25] La Provence underlined "the evident quality of the album, taking up again with the romantic and restless run-ups of the past, but with a beautiful tonic vigour".[47] For the Swiss magazine Télé Top Matin, certain songs from the album are musically similar to Depeche Mode's universe and concluded that nothing can be reproached to this album.[48] According to Music Orange, the songs are "impeccably worked", adding : "A unique style, recognizable at first listening", "a succession of puns of words (of pains) or of texts with double-meanings on background of melodies easy to remember and terribly effective".[24] Le Nouvel Observateur noted that the Farmer's "voice remains fine, but is clear and most often put forward", and made a comparison with Jeanne Mas.[49] L'Humanité deemed "the singer tries something new with Point de Suture".[50] As for Voici, this album is a "beautiful deal" in which "Farmer has been able to regenerate after 25-year career", with this "collection of energy songs".[51] Musiqueradio.com website elected Point de suture as "album of the year".[52]

Chart performances and records

France

With 5,121 downloads on four days, the album went straight to number-one on the French digital albums chart, on 23 August,[53] which is one of the records of the year.[54][55] Universal Music even declared it was the record for a francophone artist.[56] The album stayed for another week at number one with 1,510 downloads,[57] then dropped to number three with 968 downloads,[58] then continued to drop and remained on the chart (top 50) for 13 weeks.
With 108,596 sales, the album was directly number one on the SNEP Albums Chart on 30 August,[59] which was to date the third weekly best-selling debut for an album in 2008 in France.[60] It dropped to number two the week after, with 48,144 sales (616 sales of difference with the number-one album),[61] then to number three and fell off the top ten after five weeks and spent nine non-consecutive weeks on the top 20. After dropping, it jumped directly to number 18 in January, due to the singer's performance at the NRJ Music Awards 2009, reentered the chart after the release of the single "C'est dans l'air" in March/April, and also during her Stadium concerts in September. Overall, it spent 64 weeks on the chart, 34 weeks in the top 50 and 48 weeks in the top 100.
In addition, Pascal Nègre, Universal Music's president, revealed on 2 September that about 175,000 Sony Ericsson mobile phones containing the album Point de Suture were sold.[62]
This album was the singer's first one to provide five number-one hits in France.

Other countries

In Russia, Europa Plus radio aired the album for the first time on 23 August. It was available two days later and was certified Platinum on a single day for over 20,000 units sold.[63] Five months later, it hit double Platinum.[64]
In Switzerland, the album was certified Gold in one week[65] and debuted at number two on 7 September 2008, then it dropped and remained on the chart (top 100) for nine weeks, but re-entered the chart after Farmer's concerts in Geneva.[66]
In Belgium (Wallonia), the album reached number one in its first week, on 6 September, and stayed there for other two weeks. Thereafter, it dropped regularly and fell off the top 50 after 26 weeks.[67] In Belgium (Flanders), the album was number 32 on 13 September 2008, and stayed for a sole week on the chart, but became Farmer's highest ranked album on this chart.[68]
The album reached number 60 on the albums chart in Canada, on 14 September 2008, was number 11 in Quebec City and number six in Montreal.
In the 37th week of 2008, the album entered the Greek International Albums Chart at number 25, then peaked at number 16 for two weeks, and remained ranked for five weeks.[69]
The album was also released in Ukraine and Poland on 6 October.[70]

Singles

Year Title Date of release Sales
(France)		 Certification Peak position
FR BE (WA) FR FR (DD) BE (WA) SWI
2008 "Dégénération" 19 June 2008 (Digital)
18 August 2008 (CD)		 70,000 — — 1 1 1 26
"Appelle mon numéro" 3 November 2008 65,000 — — 1 22 7 53
2009 "Si j'avais au moins..." 16 February 2009 45,000 — — 1 — 25 72
"C'est dans l'air" 27 April 2009 60,000 — — 1 26 13 44
"Sextonik" 24 August 2009 15,000 — — 1 — 25 77

Release history

Date Label Country Format Catalog
August 20, 2008 Polydor Belgium, France, Switzerland Digital —
August 25, 2008 CD - Collector 5310131
12" 5310126
CD - Super Jewel box 5310124
CD - Digisleeve 5310125
September 9, 2008 Canada, EU Digital —
CD 5310833
January 16, 2009 France CD - Fourreau 5315542
March 23, 2009 CD - Slidepac 5316303
September 14, 2010 Universal Music Mexico Super Jewel box

Formats

1 Does not contain "Ave Maria"

Track listing

# Title Length Writer(s) Composer(s) Comment, performances on tours and TV[71]
1 "Dégénération" 5:24 Farmer Boutonnat
Main article: Dégénération
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and never on television.
2 "Appelle mon numéro" 5:30 Farmer Boutonnat
Main article: Appelle mon numéro
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and one time on television.
3 "Je m'ennuie" 4:22 Farmer Boutonnat
  • This song has techno sounding, with refrains similar to "Comme j'ai mal" and lyrics referring to a void, empty feeling of boredom.
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and never on television.
4 "Paradis inanimé" 4:23 Farmer Boutonnat
  • The song refers to a lasting emotion of being sad, lonely and desiring love. The opening lyrics may refer to a poet. The song has a more rock-oriented feeling, similar to Farmer's Anamorphosée album.
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and never on television.
5 "Looking for My Name" 1 4:17 Farmer Boutonnat
  • This dark, bilingual duet with Moby deals with broken relationship, loneliness, and poor self-confidence.
  • It was never performed on tour, nor on television.
6 "Point de Suture" 4:48 Farmer Boutonnat
  • This slow song is a soft, powerful ballad with lyrics relating to pain and a nuance to sex, and has worked musical bridges.
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and never on television.
7 "Réveiller le monde" 4:16 Farmer Boutonnat
  • With small nuances to religion, the song talks about union and hope, with a hint of darkness on a 1980s dance music.
  • It was never performed on tour, nor on television.
8 "Sextonik" 4:35 Farmer Boutonnat
Main article: Sextonik
  • It was never performed on tour, nor on television.
9 "C'est dans l'air" 4:29 Farmer Boutonnat
Main article: C'est dans l'air
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and never on television.
10 "Si j'avais au moins..." 5:30 Farmer Boutonnat
Main article: Si j'avais au moins...
  • It was performed during the 2009 tour and one time on television.
11 "Ave Maria" 2 5:00 Franz Schubert
  • Farmer sings opera to the classic "Ave Maria". It begins and ends with a heartbeat.
  • It was nerver performed on tour, nor on television

1 Duet with Moby
2 Hidden track

Credits and personnel

  • Produced by Laurent Boutonnat
  • Sound and mixing : Jérôme Devoise
  • Management : Thierry Suc for TS3
  • Executive production : Paul van Parys for Stuffed Monkey
  • Arrangements, programmation and keyboards : Laurent Boutonnat
  • Guitars : Sébastien Chouard
    • Tristan Monrocq on "C'est dans l'air"
  • Basses : Bernard Paganelli
  • Drum kit : Matthieu Rabaté
  • Mellotron, flute, percussion : Pol Ramirez del Piu
  • Background vocals : Mylène Farmer, Alexia Waky, Desta Huilé, Mamido Bomboko, Aline Bosuma
    • Esther Dobong' Na Essiene and Dominique Rosier on "C'est dans l'air"
  • Recorded at Studio ICP (Brussels), assistant : Vincent van Driesten at Studio Calliphora
  • Mixed at Studio Guillaume Tell (Paris), assistant : Tristan Monrocq
  • Mastering : André Perriat at Top Master, assistant : Jérémy Henry
  • Boutonnat's assistant : Emeline Chetaud
  • Administration : Corinne Potier
  • Photos : Atsushi Tani, assistant : Volvic Nakano
  • Doll made by Etsuko Miura
  • Made in the E.U.

Charts and sales

Peak positions

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart[68] 32
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[67] 1
Canadian Albums Chart[72] 60
French Digital Chart[73] 1
French SNEP Albums Chart[59] 1
Greek International Albums Chart[69] 16
Greek Albums Chart[74] 33
Russian Albums Chart 1
Swiss Albums Chart[66] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2008) Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[75] 13
French Albums Chart[76] 12
Swiss Albums Chart[77] 88
Chart (2009) Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[78] 75

Certifications

Country Certification Date Sales certified Digital downloads
Belgium[79] Platinum 27 December 2008 35,000
France[80] 3 x Platinum 5 February 2009 600,000 10,000
Switzerland[65] Gold 7 September 2008 15,000
Russia[63] 2 x Platinum 21 January 2009 40,000

Chart successions

Preceded by
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay		 French SNEP number-one album
30 August 2008 (1 week)		 Succeeded by
Ce que l'on sème by Tryo
Preceded by
Duel by Quentin Mosimann		 Belgian (Wallonia) number-one album
6 September 2008 — 20 September 2008 (3 weeks)		 Succeeded by
Où s'en vont les avions ? by Julien Clerc
Awards
Preceded by
Inventaire by Christophe Willem		 NRJ Music Awards
Francophone album of the year
2009		 Succeeded by
Incumbent

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External links

Mylène Farmer
Studio albums
Cendres de Lune (1986) · Ainsi soit je... (1988) · L'Autre... (1991) · Anamorphosée (1995) · Innamoramento (1999) · Avant que l'ombre... (2005) · Point de suture (2008) · Bleu Noir (2010)
Live albums
En Concert (1989) · Live à Bercy (1997) · Mylenium Tour (2000) · Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (2006) · N°5 on Tour (2009)
Remix albums
Dance Remixes (1992) · RemixeS (2003)
Compilations
Les Mots (2001) · 2001.2011 (2011)
VHS & DVD
Les Clips (1987) · Les Clips Vol. II (1988) · En Concert (1989) · Les Clips Vol. III (1990) · L'Autre (1992) · Music Videos I (1997) · Music Videos II (1997) · Live à Bercy (1997) · Music Videos III (2000) · Mylenium Tour (2000) · Music Videos II & III (2001) · Music Videos IV (2006) · Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (2006) · Stade de France (2010)
Tours
Mylène Farmer en concert (1989) · 1996 Bercy (1996) · Mylenium Tour (2000) · Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (2006) · Mylène Farmer en tournée (2009)
Films
Giorgino (1994) · Arthur and the Minimoys (2006) · Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009) · Arthur and the War of the Two Worlds (2010)
Book
Lisa-Loup et le Conteur (2003)
Labels
Associated artists
Related articles
Mylène Farmer singles
Cendres de Lune
"Maman a tort" (1984) · "My Mum Is Wrong" (1984) · "On est tous des imbéciles" (1985) · "Plus grandir" (1985) · "Libertine" (1986) · "Tristana" (1987)
Ainsi soit je...
"Sans contrefaçon" (1987) · "Ainsi soit je..." (1988) · "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" (1988) · "Sans logique" (1989)
En Concert
L'Autre...
"Désenchantée" (1991) · "Regrets" (1991) · "Je t'aime mélancolie" (1991) · "Beyond My Control" (1992)
Dance Remixes
Anamorphosée
"XXL" (1995) · "L'Instant X" (1995) · "California" (1996) · "Comme j'ai mal" (1996) · "Rêver" (1996)
Live à Bercy
Innamoramento
"L'Âme-stram-gram" (1999) · "Je te rends ton amour" (1999) · "Souviens-toi du jour" (1999) · "Optimistique-moi" (2000) · "Innamoramento" (2000)
Mylenium Tour
Les Mots
"L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est..." (2001) · "Les Mots" (2001) · "C'est une belle journée" (2002) · "Pardonne-moi" (2002)
RemixeS
Avant que l'ombre...
"Fuck Them All" (2005) · "Q.I" (2005) · "Redonne-moi" (2006) · "L'amour n'est rien..." (2006) · "Peut-être toi" (2006)
Go - The Very Best of Moby (Moby's album)
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
Point de suture
"Dégénération" (2008) · "Appelle mon numéro" (2008) · "Si j'avais au moins..." (2009) · "C'est dans l'air" (2009) · "Sextonik" (2009)
N°5 on Tour
Bleu Noir
"Oui mais... non" (2010) · "Bleu Noir" (2011) · "Lonely Lisa" (2011)
2001.2011
"Du temps" (2011)
B-sides
"L'Annonciation" (1985) · "Puisque..." (1988) · "Dernier Sourire" (1989) · "La Veuve noire" (1989) · "Psychiatric" (1989) · "Mylène Is Calling" (1991) · "Alice" (1995) · "L'Autre" (1997) · "Effets secondaires" (1999)
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