Sexuality (album)

Sexuality
Studio album by Sébastien Tellier
Released 25 February 2008
Genre Synthpop
Length 51:10
Label Record Makers / Lucky Number Music
Producer Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Sébastien Tellier chronology

Universe
(2006)		 Sexuality
(2008)		 My God is Blue
(2012)
Alternative cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Drowned in Sound (6/10)[2]
The Guardian [3]
NME (8/10)[4]
Pitchfork Media (7.3/10)[5]

Sexuality is the third studio album by French artist Sébastien Tellier, released on 25 February 2008. The album was produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who is best known as one of the members of Daft Punk.

Conception

Sexuality is the first studio album by Tellier produced by someone other than himself.[6] When de Homem-Christo was asked to produce the album, he was flattered and immediately agreed to do it. He expressed that Tellier "is maybe the best singer and composer in France today" and felt that the album was one of the few collaborative efforts in which he could contribute significantly and uniquely. "If you feel it and if you feel something creatively interesting then it’s possible."[7] Their previous professional meeting was during the production period of the film Daft Punk's Electroma, in which Daft Punk requested the use of Tellier's song "Universe".[8]

The first "taster" from the album was "Sexual Sportswear", which was revealed on Tellier's MySpace page.[7] He described the instrumental track as "a direct combination of what I was doing before and what Guy-Man can do."[8] When questioned on the two seemingly strangely juxtaposed words in the title, Tellier replied: "In my own sexual fantasies I always think about women in sportswear. I like women in sports pants and prefer peeling them off women to lifting up their skirts."[9]

Regarding the style of the album, Tellier stated, "It is not at all like what I have released before and nothing like what Guy-Man did with Daft Punk." He also elaborated that, "It's very electronic and like intellectual R&B, although not in the same way that Beyoncé or Justin Timberlake are R&B." Tellier also stated "I wanted to make music that would sexually excite people in an Italian or Latin sense of sexual music; the big seducer with the broken heart... I tried to keep vulgarity away from sex and my music."[9]

Track listing

  1. "Roche"
  2. "Kilometer"
  3. "Look"
  4. "Divine"
  5. "Pomme"
  6. "Une heure"
  7. "Sexual Sportswear"
  8. "Elle"
  9. "Fingers of Steel"
  10. "Manty"
  11. "L’amour et la violence"

Personnel

Chart positions

Chart Peak position
French Albums Chart 33[10]
Swedish Albums Chart 43[11]

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Drowned in Sound review
  3. ↑ The Guardian review
  4. ↑ NME review
  5. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  6. ↑ Sébastian Tellier: interview Time Out: London. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Daft Punk Interview Popjustice. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sébastien Tellier: Interview Channel 4. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sébastien Tellier Interview Popjustice. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  10. ↑ Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality - swisscharts.com
  11. ↑ www.sverigetopplistan.se

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