LEMAIRE PLAYLISTS
Music takes pride of place at LEMAIRE, from cinematic soundtracks and live concerts at the runway shows, to collaborations that pay tribute to cult musicians, and iconoclastic playlists and compilations.Guided by a desire to amplify raw aesthetics and artistic energies that go against the grain, LEMAIRE explores avant-garde musical terrains in genres like electro, new wave, garage, and afro psych rock. Evocatively titled and curated with the help of composer Pilooski, the playlists are available below, on Spotify, and can also be heard in LEMAIRE stores – from Paris to Tokyo.
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COMMON DECENCY
Spoken and instrumental forms of storytelling meet in a playlist that layers progressive folk, blues, and the avant-garde. The transcendent, fingerpicked guitar solos of John Fahey and Robbie Basho blend traditional blues and Appalachian influences with Eastern ragas, classical structures, and improvisation. Meditative acoustic compositions are interspersed with cautionary tales of social injustice and lyrical gestures of resistance.
FOLLOW THE LIGHT
This playlist features unreleased demos by cult band Broadcast, Roy Montgomery's meditative instrumentals, and Lewis Baloue’s velvety voice, carving a dreamlike and peaceful atmosphere. An ideal soundscape to celebrate the year’s ending and new beginnings, filled with ML Buch's radiant compositions and the experimental soundscapes of the enigmatic duo Deux Filles.
L'ÉTÉ L'ÉTÉ
Named after Brigitte Fontaine’s 1971 track, this playlist moves between soft and deep ballads, devotional music, and experimental song forms. Melodies are seductive but unstable – warped by repetition, improvisation, and dissonance.
Featuring artists including Hassan Kassayi, Stella Chiweshe, Captain Beefheart, and Francis Bebey, it evokes the hallucinatory ambience of summer: hot, languid, fragmented, and surreal.
LA PLUS QUE LENTE
Exploring the porous boundaries between geographies, genres, and eras, this playlist traces a lineage from Claude Debussy’s early 20th-century compositions through the evolution of ambient music in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Taking its title from Debussy’s 1910 waltz – literally “slower than slow” – it brings together calm, melodic, and experimental tracks that foreground texture and repetition for meditative, reflective listening.