Nostalgie Apt

Nostalgie Apt is a local franchise of a very French idea: that the songs you grew up with deserve a permanent home on the dial. The playlist runs from French chanson through '80s pop and into the early '90s, so you'll get Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall, then Jean-Jacques Goldman, then a bit of Téléphone or Indochine. None of it is trying to be cool. That's the point. It's French radio at its least pretentious. What makes the Apt version interesting is the local texture. Provence, not Paris. The pace is gentler, and the station trusts the songs to do the work instead of wallpapering them with…