TENDER FOREVER - THE SOFT AND THE HARDCORE (LP)

Tender Forever The Soft and the Hardcore on LP

Hailing from Bordeaux, France, Melanie Valera initially formed Tender Forever as a side project to an earlier band. Its debut album is a warm, welcoming blend of acoustic guitar, harmonium, and other traditional instrumentation with simple yet effective electronic textures. While some of Valera's songs are like mildly eccentric, simply crafted daily journal entries--in "Happy Birthday" she sings about her partner's anniversary to a chiming, naïve keyboard--others, like "Take It Off," project the kind of uncomplicated sexuality that seems to have come as naturally as breathing to French chanteuses from Francois Hardy to Vanessa Paradis.

Tender Forever The Soft and the Hardcore Track Listing:

 1  Everyday Monday  Tender Forever  0:40 
 2  Take It Off  Tender Forever  2:23 
 3  The Feeling of Love  Tender Forever  3:31 
 4  This Is Hardcore  Tender Forever  0:56 
 5  Make Out  Tender Forever  2:45 
 6  Then If I'm Weird I Want to Share  Tender Forever  2:47 
 7  Hot  Tender Forever  2:56 
 8  Rad  Tender Forever  1:53 
 9  Happy Birthday  Tender Forever  1:18 
 10  Marry Me  Tender Forever  1:15 
 11  Tender Forever  Tender Forever  2:49 
 12  The Magic of Crashing Stars