Nostalgie Toulouse

Nostalgie Toulouse is built on one stubborn idea: the songs you already know beat the ones you don't. Fair enough. The playlist moves from yé-yé pop (France Gall, Jacques Dutronc) through Serge Gainsbourg's crooked chanson and into the big French rock of the '80s, Téléphone, Balavoine, the records your parents argued about over dinner. It's variété française in the truest sense, so Johnny Hallyday sits beside Véronique Sanson and nobody flinches. Presentation is warm and unhurried, closer to a friend with a deep record shelf than a hype machine. Purists will call it safe. It is. That's the app…