Titled Chris, the record will be released via Because Music on 21 September. A second new song from the record, ‘Doesn’t matter’, is also out today and is accompanied by a unique, gripping performance video, directed by Colin Solal Cardo, known for his work with French collective La Blogotheque.

The song wrestles with a higher power in order to reach a driving and powerful incantation of soothing hope against mounting misery. "It’s a crisis song that I wrote late one night", explains Christine. “This song is a cathedral, with a rhythm as unalterable as white stone. The bass line, I remember playing it for hours, as if to rock myself."

Chris was written, arranged and performed by Christine and the Queens. It is the follow up to her already-iconic debut record Chaleur Humaine, released to near-universal acclaim in France in 2014 and the UK in 2016, and selling more than 1.3 million copies to date.

Christine and the Queens has announced a full tour of Europe, Canada and the United States for the Autumn, including a date at Dublin’s RDS on November 30th.

ALBUM TRACKLISTING

English language version:

1. Comme si
2. Girlfriend (feat. Dâm-Funk)
3. The walker
4. Doesn’t matter
5. 5 dollars
6. Goya Soda
7. Damn (what must a woman do)

8. What’s-her-face
9. Feel so good
10. Make some sense
11. The stranger