Album · Camille
Le Fil by Camille
Le Fil is an album by Camille, released in 2005. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Ta Douleur”, on 1 list with a best position of #26.
Le Fil, the second album by French singer-songwriter Camille, arrived on Virgin in February 2005, and its title means "The Thread". The thread is literal: a single droning B note hums beneath every track, which Camille calls her note, and more than a few buyers took it for a pressing fault and returned the disc. On the original release the closer, "Quand je marche", keeps that tone going for over 30 minutes after the song ends, stretching the track to nearly 39.
What sits on top of the drone is a one-woman vocal circus, Camille bending her voice into the instruments of a whole band, which is why it keeps getting compared to Björk's Medúlla. "Ta Douleur" is its bounciest, most playful moment. The album won an award as the year's revelation album in 2006, "Senza" soundtracked a Ford ad in 2008, and in 2010 "Ta douleur" turned up in a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Le Fil on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ta Douleur | 1 | #26 | – | 2006 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.