Nostalgie Mix

Nostalgie Mix doesn't chase new releases. That's the point. What it offers instead is French chanson and the pop that once filled kitchens and car radios: Jean-Jacques Goldman, France Gall, Michel Berger, Téléphone, Véronique Sanson, plus the occasional English-language soft-rock standard dropped in for contrast. The tone stays warm and vocal, big choruses, strings, lyrics half the country already knows by heart. Nobody's trying to be adventurous here. Simple as that. The sequencing is loose and unhurried, which suits the mood: this is background music in the best sense, the sort that carries…