The standout tracks from the land that gave us “Je t’aime” are, no surprise, male/female duets. The interplay of vocal timbres alone places Ruth’s “Polaroid-Roman-Photo” in the company of such ’80s-night master-and-servant staples as Berlin’s “Sex (I’m a . . . )” and Animotion’s “Obsession.” (The track also features a notably non-synthetic horn section.) And on Deux’s “Game and Performance,” sung in English, une femme laments, “You simulated your love for me,” only to be answered by un homme in oblique, atomized phrases: “Businessmen . . . computer programs, shadows in the night.” It’s like eavesdropping on pillow talk between Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: the effect is sexy, creepy, and more intimate than you might be comfortable hearing.
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