Christine and the Queens’ new release pairs “Rendez-vous avec toi” with “Rendez-vous in your arms,” giving listeners French and English versions to choose from. The artist’s official Bandcamp page dates the two-track digital release November 5, following music-news coverage of the single on November 4.
Source: Mr. Rossi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Christine and the Queens at Southside Festival on June 21, 2019; cropped archival photograph, not a performance of the new single. Original photograph · License.
The listing is unusually useful for anyone deciding what to download: the French track runs 4:14 and the English track 4:12. Both sit together on the same release, credited to Because Music, rather than appearing as a standard edition and a larger deluxe package.
Two tracks, with the download details spelled out
The official Bandcamp listing offers streaming and downloads in MP3, FLAC and other formats, and specifies 24-bit/44.1kHz availability. It does not list a remix or additional bonus song. The two-second running-time difference is a catalog detail, not evidence by itself of a different arrangement or recording process.
This is a different kind of release expansion from the extra songs and alternate mix in Paul McCartney’s expanded Dungeon Lane. It also gives listeners a second language version where RIIZE’s Insomnia prologue was issued as one track. The practical comparison is the contents of the release, rather than the size of the “single” or “album” label a store assigns it.
December dates are listed separately
The artist’s website lists December appearances at Botanique in Brussels on the 1st, Scala in London on the 7th, Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam on the 8th and Alhambra in Paris on the 10th. Those are upcoming dates; the new release does not provide a set list for them.
For background on the artist, also known as Rahim Redcar, eLyrics’ Christine and the Queens catalog collects earlier song pages. For this release, the clearest starting point is the official two-track listing: one French title, one English title, and the file formats stated before purchase.
