Charlotte Gainsbourg plans single and double album in January

Charlotte Gainsbourg will release her new single 'Anna' through Because Music on 23rd January. Taken from her forthcoming album 'Stage Whisper' (30th January) the single will be available as a download only.

'Stage Whisper', a double album of live and unreleased studio tracks, is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 'IRM' album, which came out in January 2010. 'Stage Whisper's studio material features collaborations with Beck, Conor O'Brien of Villagers, Noah and the Whale and Connan Mockasin.

Many of the studio tracks on 'Stage Whisper' originate from the sessions for 'IRM', which enjoyed critical claim across the globe. The Sunday Telegraph declared the album to be a work of "borderline genius", Mojo claimed "IRM marks Charlotte Gainsbourg's musical coming of age", whilst the Daily Telegraph enthused "her best work and arguably Beck's best in a decade, too".

The New York Times called 'IRM' "an engrossingly eclectic pop record and a kind of coming-out party: the first time that Ms Gainsbourg the chanteuse has displayed the charisma of Charlotte Gainsbourg the actress." Vanity Fair deemed the album "an enigmatic, varied, and sonically complex tour de force."