5:55

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5:55

Studio album by Charlotte Gainsbourg

Released

28 August 2006 (France)
4 September 2006 (UK)
24 April 2007 (US)

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link
CLUAS (8/10) link

The Guardian 1 September 2006
The Observer 13 August 2006
Pitchfork Media (5.8/10) 15 September 2006
Feel The Word (favorable) link
The Times 2 September 2006

Charlotte Gainsbourg chronology

Charlotte For Ever
(1986)

5:55
(2006)

5:55 is the second album by French musician and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. It is also her first album release in twenty years. Charlotte collaborated on the album with French duo Air, English musician Jarvis Cocker, and Irish singer-songwriter Neil Hannon, as well as Radiohead's main producer Nigel Godrich. "The Songs That We Sing" and "5:55" were released as singles. The album went platinum in France, selling over 300,000 copies.^[1]"The Songs That We Sing" was #78 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.^[2]

In order to distance herself from her famous father and mother (Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin), Charlotte decided to sing in English most of the album (leaving only one song in French, Tel Que Tu Es, meaning Such As You Are). Critics have been very positive in France, describing this effort as a total achievement from all points of view. Anglo-Saxon critics have been more mixed, saying that Charlotte's second album does not sound all that different compared with the work of her parents. This could be attributed to the fact that Charlotte's voice is very similar to her mother's.^{[citation needed]}

1 Track listing
2 Charts
- 2.1 Album
- 2.2 Singles
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

"5:55"
"AF607105"
"The Operation"
"Tel Que Tu Es"
"The Songs That We Sing"
"Beauty Mark"
"Little Monsters"
"Jamais"
"Night-Time Intermission"
"Everything I Cannot See"
"Morning Song"

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year	Chart	Position
2006	Belgian Albums Charts (Wallonia)	2
2006	Belgian Albums Charts (Flanders)	15
2006	Dutch Albums Charts	99
2006	French Albums Charts	1
2006	European Top 100 Albums	14^[3]
2006	Austrian Album Charts	41^[4]
2006	Swedish Album Charts	57^[5]
2006	Swiss Album Charts	12^[6]
2007	The Billboard 200 (USA)	196
2007	Billboard Top Heatseekers (USA)	3^[7]
2007	Billboard Top Independent Albums (USA)	24