Carla Bruni Announces New Album ‘French Touch’ To Be Released on October 6th via Decca Records First Single, Cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ Available Now Photo credit: Matthieu Zazzo Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Carla Bruni announces the release of her 5th studio album, an English-language collection of cover songs produced by legendary producer, composer and musician David Foster entitled ‘French Touch’, released on October 6th via Decca Records. Click Here for the stunning video (directed by Fabienne Berthaud) for first single ‘Enjoy The Silence’, a stripped down and intimate rendition of the Depeche Mode classic, which premiered on Billboard.com accompanied by an interview with Carla. The song is available now on all digital and streaming services carlabruni.lnk.to/EnjoyTheSilence Since her youth, Carla has assembled a trove of all-time sentimental favourites—pop songs forever associated with a person or place or moment in time, the sort of records that she says, borrowing the French term for love at first sight, “have been a coup de foudre.” The album gives credence to its title, richly melodic, warm yet minimal, and often slyly playful – all the covers in this collection have been given that ‘French Touch’, and still have all the universal appeal of their originals, albeit with a sultry flavour all their own. 7 Broadbent Close, Highgate Village, London, N6 5JW t 020 3213 0135 f 020 8348 7776 e [email protected] www.republicmedia.net @republic_media Take the lead single, ‘Enjoy the Silence’. Depeche Mode’s dark yet soaring 1990 pop classic is the sort of anthem most musicians wouldn’t dare mess with—“a song that doesn’t need a cover,” as Carla puts it—yet the ‘French Touch’ take is something else altogether. The new version strips the original’s soaring spectacle down to its essence: a spare, moody ballad, a moving meditation. Reimagined as a simple dance of guitar, piano, and Carla’s signature smoky vocals, it opens up the in-between spaces—the silence, there to be enjoyed. “What I like very much about the song is the lyrics. They are quite dark, but they’re made stronger because, nowadays, noise is everywhere. We need silence. Silence is healing.” ‘French Touch’ is warm and familiar, and inimitably Carla. More information on Carla’s forthcoming release to be announced soon. Carla Bruni has been writing and performing music since 1997, with her first album ‘Quelqu’un m’a dit’ being released in 2003. Since then she has had 3 more critically acclaimed releases, selling over 3 million albums worldwide, including 2007’s ‘No Promises’ which set English poems to music, 2008’s ‘Comme si de rien n’était’, and 2013’s ‘Little French Songs’. YouTube: /CarlaBruniVEVO Instagram: carlabruniofficial Facebook: /carlabruniofficiel Twitter: /carlabruni For more information on Carla Bruni, please contact: Republic Media [email protected] 020 3213 0135 7 Broadbent Close, Highgate Village, London, N6 5JW t 020 3213 0135 f 020 8348 7776 e [email protected] www.republicmedia.net @republic_media .