Marcel Winatschek

Music for Lying Still in the Wrong Bed

Sébastien Tellier occupies a specific niche nobody else really touches—somewhere between genuine aesthetic visionary and elaborate joke that stopped being a joke, or maybe never was. Pépito Bleu is exactly that: slow, devotional, production that sounds like sunlight filtered through curtains in a room you probably shouldn’t be in. He treats pop music as erotic philosophy and somehow pulls it off. The French do something to melancholy that nobody else can replicate, and Tellier is maybe the purest living example of it.