Lost on the B Side

CHRISTELLE DELANEY IS

a modern-day French chanteuse. The reviewers say her voice is sweet and timid, or seductive and sinister, or elegant but sad, or a muffled distance away so listen closely…listen closely. Her often elusively soft, but sometimes progressive style is all in the ear of the beholder. You have to hear it to think it. A quote from Delaney’s site where her Friends trail out their thoughts says what Delaney is – or may be:  “I’d adore understanding what you’re saying, but this way…I can focus on the sounds…it’s like watching a foreign film (to decide) what is good, what is bad.” With her voice, you think and then you feel. No story necessary with her sound that “…seeps…like clouds of smoke.”