Yesterday, BB Brunes released their second album Nico Teen Love. Their first single from this album was released several months ago and was available to listen to free online. You can see videos of Dynamite (translated here) and others in the video section of their site. Extracts from three other songs from Nico Teen Love have been available for some time here.

It had been possible to pre-order the album in physical form and, unfortunately, for a physical price but, not wanting another CD in my life I decided to wait until the release date and download from either iTunes or Amazon depending on which was the cheapest (not that I’ve ever found an album that was cheaper on iTunes).

If you want to hear extracts from all the songs on the album you can hear them on the French Amazon store although you will not be able to buy the album outside of France. Alternatively, you can fire up iTunes, navigate to the store and then in the bottom right of your iTunes application select the round flag icon and then use the following list of countries to move to the French store. You can then search for the album and listen to the extracts, but again, unless you have a French iTunes account you won’t be able to get your ears on the full album. The iTunes price of 14.99 euros is horrific and is made worse when you see that it is priced at a much more sensible 9.99 EUR on Amazon.

Amazon have however got their hands on some of my money today after I bought Diam’s new release S.O.S. Voilà pourqoui the album in the widget is not the subject of this post. Unusually this was the same price (GBP 7.99) as in iTunes but I prefer to buy from Amazon so that I get the DRM-free MP3s and Amazon’s downloader integrates the album into your iTunes library for you without any hassle.

So, there will be two reviews coming shortly.

The second BB Brunes album is due to be released on November 16th. Dynamite is the first single from the album and is available to listen to free on their website in exchange for giving them your email address.

I really like this single although currently it’s not available in the British iTunes store or on Amazon.

I am currently translating this song (the result of which will be part of this post when I publish it) and something great is happening in the background. Another album new to my ears and sounding great. It’s by yet another band from Quebec called Kaïn. The album is called Les Saisons S’Tassent and you can be sure that this won’t be the last time I’ll mention them here. There are so many bands I want to introduce you to that it makes me wonder why I’m posting another BB Brunes translation.

The translation threw up some interesting verbs and unless your French is quite advanced you should pick up something new from the vocabulary I’ve highlighted.

I’ve just finished the translation and the Kaïn album is still playing – it really does sound very good indeed.