Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg Review: Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg may be the daughter of the ultimate Euro-glam couple, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, but her Beck collaboration, IRM, is a tough-minded trip through some serious adult trauma: the 2007 cerebral hemorrhage that nearly killed her. Beck's keyboards echo the sound of an emergency-room brain scan. "IRM" is a stark hospital scene ("Following the X-ray eyes/From the cortex to the medulla"), and "Dandelion" explores melancholy with some French wit. As Gainsbourg sings,... Rating: 3.5 Stars

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