France Gall - 1968 (1997)

Definitely the weirdest record of France Gall's career, 1968 (released in 1967) shows the influence of British psychedelia as it spread across the English Channel. Like Merseybeat and other rock and pop forms before it, though, the notion of what of psychedelia was or could be was twisted by French musicians into something idiosyncratically Gallic. Even though echoes of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper (and others) are all over this, its French roots are still easily identifiable and unmistakable as French. Further, its performances, are easily identifdiable as Gall's as they build on the ye-ye production experiments (courtesy of Denis Bourgeois) from the singer's two previous albums Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son and Baby Pop.