Name: La Porte
Brand: Charlene Darling

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DISC27

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Printed Inner.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5056614706444

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Charlene Darling

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Disciples

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An exploration of misplaced desire and all- consuming romantic obsession, told through a series of beautifully constructed leftfield pop songs. <i>La Porte</i>, the second studio album by Charlotte Kouklia aka Charlène Darling, finds the artist and her group building a self-contained musical world via French and English language vocals, and a minimalist backing of guitar, organ, bass and drums. 

At times recalling the feminist post-punk of The Raincoats, the avant songcraft of Brigitte Fontaine, or the psychedelic vignettes of Cate Le Bon, in truth Charlène Darling sounds like herself. The arrangements are playfully experimental, dubbed out percussion bubbling over the stripped back instrumentation, or rough tape edits disrupting lush harmonies, but never losing sight of the earworm hooks that make these songs so addictively listenable. Step through the door and walk right in. 

Charlotte is one quarter of the band Rose Mercie. After a beguiling series of DIY tape and CD-R releases, her first widely distributed solo album, ‘Saint-Guidon’, was released in 2019. 

Black vinyl LP in printed inner sleeve with lyrics in both French and English.

La Porte

Music GB

Discover La Porte by Charlene Darling. An exploration of misplaced desire and romantic obsession through beautifully constructed leftfield pop songs. Available in black vinyl LP from Disciples.