Vinyl Record
Christine and the Queens - Chris
Christine and the Queens - Chris on 2LP vinyl. A 2018 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2018
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2018 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Chris is Christine and the Queens turning a second album into a full change of stance. Released in 2018, it follows the breakthrough of Chaleur Humaine with a sharper body language: funk basslines, clipped percussion, 1980s pop muscle, bilingual self-fashioning and a persona that treats gender, desire and performance as active materials. Comme si and Girlfriend announce the shift immediately, replacing the earlier album's graceful melancholy with swagger and friction. Doesn't Matter keeps the motion taut while asking spiritual and existential questions inside a dance-pop frame. 5 Dollars and The Walker bring vulnerability back into view, but the record never collapses into confession alone. Its brilliance is in the tension between control and exposure. Chris is an album about taking up space while knowing that space is contested; about moving like someone invented anew, while carrying the cost of invention in the body. The sound is clean, spare and physical, giving every bass movement and vocal angle room to register.
Chris matters because it turned Christine and the Queens from a singular art-pop arrival into a more forceful, self-directed pop figure. The album made transformation audible, not just visible: the rhythms got harder, the persona more angular, the emotional questions more embodied. It became one of the essential 2018 pop records because it used style as argument, showing how dance, theatre and identity can sharpen one another.
For collectors, Chris is the Christine and the Queens title where the project gains muscle. Chaleur Humaine remains the introduction, but Chris is the statement of command: tighter, bolder and more physically charged. It is especially valuable for listeners who want modern pop that thinks through movement, not only melody, and for shelves that connect synth-pop history with contemporary questions of self-making.
Minimal but muscular art-pop with funk bass, 1980s drum-machine snap, bilingual vocal control, sharp melodic hooks and a dance-floor surface carrying intimate tension.
Recommended for: Christine and the Queens collectors seeking the key second album; fans of art-pop with funk and synth-pop discipline; listeners interested in pop shaped by movement and identity.
When was Chris released? Chris was released in 2018 as the second Christine and the Queens studio album. What makes Chris different from Chaleur Humaine? Chris is more physical and assertive, with stronger funk, dance-pop and 1980s pop elements driving the sound. What are the key tracks? Comme si, Girlfriend, Doesn't Matter, 5 Dollars and The Walker give a clear sense of the album's confidence, tension and movement.