Camille’s second album, Le Fil, is a concept release. With ‘the thread’ of a droning sound running through it, ending with an eight-minute extended outro of the hum continuing along, for the most part this is a stripped back release, with producer Majicka using clipped beats to accompany Camille’s voice.

It is her voice that is the key component throughout Le Fil – rather than deliver things simply, she multi-tracks her vocals and delivers a variety of sounds throughout this album. Sometimes she’s double- perhaps even triple-tracked, but each vocal track is different and it is used as a creative device to test the sounds of her instrument.

Perhaps this is part of the reason why Le Fil has worked so well in a variety of territories regardless of the fact that Camille sings in French almost entirely throughout the album. It’s the way she phrases the beautiful words on the likes of “Ta douleur” and “Au port” that works so well, as it sounds absolutely magnificent and totally beguiling.

Still, there’s no doubt that Le Fil is overlong, with fifteen tracks clocking in at around an hour in length. On the highlights like those mentioned above and others such as “Vous”, it’s an amazing sound, but the likes of “Janine I”, “Janine II”, and “Janine III” are mere filler in between sections of the album. But Le Fil is the sort of album that works better taken as a whole, as most concept albums do.