Mylène Farmer, on vinyl.
A personal, slowly-growing catalogue of every pressing of every Mylène Farmer record I've gotten my hands on — first French issues, foreign variants, test pressings, promos, the lot. I'm not interested in checklists; I'm interested in the small differences between stampers, sleeves, and labels that make each copy its own thing.
Cendres De Lune
The first proper album, and arguably the one that still defines the sound everyone thinks of when they think of Mylène — gothic-pop, breathy delivery, Laurent Boutonnat's lush synth arrangements stacked five deep. My copy is the original French Polydor pressing, gatefold intact, the inner sleeve with the lyrics printed in that slightly-too-small condensed serif. I paid more than I should have for this — found it through a Paris record shop that knew exactly what it had — but the sleeve was unplayed and the disc itself near-silent on the lead-in groove. I've never managed to play Libertine on this copy without putting it back to the beginning at least once. A vrai bijou, and the reason this whole archive exists.
This is a private archive that I happen to have made public. There's no shop, no newsletter, no socials. If you have a pressing variant I haven't logged or you've spotted an error, please write me. I trade duplicates with other collectors occasionally — drop me an email.