Mina Tindle Shares Video For "Louis," 'SISTER' out now on 37d03d

Mina Tindle Shares Video For “Louis” New Album SISTER Out Now via 37d03d

Photo credit: ©rgm  Mina Tindle, the project of Parisian singer/songwriter Pauline De Lassus released her third full-length album SISTER in October via 37d03d, and she has shared the video for the sweetly lilting “Louis,” a song inspired by Italo Calvino’s story collection Under the Jaguar Sun and featuring Kate Stables of This Is The Kit - watch HERE.

De Lassus says, "It's a perilous exercise to make music videos in 2020, but it's also an unexpected way to kindle a DIY spirit. I wanted to show women, my sisters of heart and dance. So I asked Kate Stables, through a window, to improvise and repeat each other's gestures and movements over the solar music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, just before a torrential rain fell on us. We're used to singing together, and moving was just as natural. It's often like that with the people you love. I love these images and thought they would fit well with the song Louis which tells the story of a king who is at first narcissistic and then paranoid, who ends up losing everything he owns, including love, because of his toxic desire for power. This video, conversely, tells of the simple joy of finding someone who becomes your perfect echo, even for a short moment, and finding a deep soothing feeling to vibrate with someone."   Credits: "Pas de deux" by Kate Stables and Mina Tindle Filmed by Thomas Vauthier   Song Produced and recorded by Thomas Bartlett Additional recording by Mina TIndle Clarinette : Doug Wieselman Mixed by Pat Dillett Mastered by Joe Lambert   “Louis” follows the previously released singles “Jessa,” “Indian Summer,” “Give A Little Love ft. Sufjan Stevens,”as well as lead singles “Lions,” and “Belle Pénitence.”   In a departure from the radiant alt-pop of De Lassus’ first two albums, SISTER brings that depth and contrast to a more heavily contoured yet beautifully nuanced sonic backdrop. The album was mostly made in New York City with producer Thomas Bartlett (Joan as Police Woman, Yoko Ono, Florence + the Machine), with additional production by Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner.   SISTER is an album populated by mythic creatures of all kinds: lions on parade, lovers turned to cannibals, kings and Sirens and women with wings. Like any great fabulist, she threads her storytelling with a fragile wisdom, revealing essential truths about all the danger and wildness within the human heart. With each moment elevated by her spellbinding vocal work—a gift she’s shown in recording and touring as a singer for The National—SISTER ultimately makes for a transportive listening experience, at turns impossibly dreamlike and profoundly illuminating.   “With my first two records I was on a quest, searching for the meaning of life and love and absolutely everything, but in making this album I felt much more grounded,” says De Lassus, who notes that becoming a mother closely informed her songwriting on SISTER. “Instead of feeling nostalgic for the past or worried about the future, I’m living more fully in the present, and it makes all the colors feel deeper and more contrasted than they were before.”

(cover art by Indira Dominici)   A work of both extraordinary subtlety and storybook grandeur, SISTER expands on the graceful musicality first displayed on her 2012 full-length debut with Taranta, produced with famed French songwriter JP Nataf. The album drew critical acclaim from outlets like Pitchfork and her French language single “Pan” achieved widespread success at French Radio as well as regular play-listing at international stations such as Los Angeles’s KCRW. Soon after wrapping up more than two years of touring in support of Taranta, she returned with her 2014 sophomore effort, the critically-acclaimed Parades, produced by Olivier Marguerit. De Lassus later appeared as a featured soloist on The National’s 2019 album I Am Easy to Find and toured extensively with the band. During the last few years as she was writing and recording SISTER, De Lassus and her Mina Tindle project have also been an integral part of the PEOPLE Festivals at the historic Berlin Funkhaus in 2016 and 2018, where she worked with a vast range of musicians and artists in the community.   Praise for Mina Tindle + SISTER: "It’s from the watercolor zone of Stevens’s catalog, made even more diaphanous by De Lassus’s guileless voice. In the first half of the song, she realizes “I’m all alone” in music with a subliminally unstable seven-beat meter. In the second, she quietly calls for what she needs — “Give a little bit of your heart” — as the music settles into 4/4 and she and Stevens overdub themselves into a supportive choir." - The New York Times on “Give a Little Love ft. Sufjan Stevens” "Indian Summer” subtly builds as it goes. In the beginning, it’s barely more than De Lassus’ voice and some atmospheric backdrops. But she layers and magnifies herself as the song continues, until the end of the song is a gorgeous web of vocal melodies. " - Stereogum "Lonesome but sweet, “Give a Little Love” flows along gently reverberating guitars and piano notes that seem to coo under Tindle’s voice. The track was written, arranged, and produced by Stevens, and he also contributed subtle backing vocals, adding to the song’s warm feel." - Consequence of Sound