Goldfrapp's new record Black Cherry is a little bit of a disappointment. It is not because of the change of style, from sentimental schmaltzy cinemascope soundtrack to electro-dance music. No, the new album has some tracks with cheap embarrassing beats which I have to skip after 20 seconds of listen. And the whole album is not organic. It is just a collection of songs. Allison Goldfrapp's voice is sexy as ever but the song material is simply too disparate. Lots of different influences: I hear Kate Bush and Shirley Manson from Garbage.

I just listened to Kat Onoma's Black Session on Bernard Lenoir's radio program. Absolutely brilliant. Of all bands I do not have any records of Kat Onoma is the band I need an album of most urgently. They are from Strasbourg and have been going for well over ten years. Their music is dark, bluesy, messy and powerful. The meeting point of Joy Division and Gallon Drunk. With an electronic touch and some tape voice experiments (Deleuze's voice could be heard at one point). Rodolphe Burger sounds sometimes very much like Bashung. Actually Bashung sang at the concert as well. Apparently one song on Bashung's latest Fantaisie Militaire is even written by Burger. I ordered Kat Onoma's latest Digipack together with Benjamin Biolay's first quite orchestral album Rose Kennedy.