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Christine and the Queens’ Héloïse Letissier was among the performers on Global Citizen’s all-star One World: Together at Home broadcast. She sang “People, I’ve been sad” and “Mountains (we met)” from her new La vita nuova EP. Watch both performances below.

Christine and the Queens has shared a cover of the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” her contribution to the social distancing hashtag #TogetherAtHome. Check it out below.

Christine and the Queens represent the country of France in leading a listing of Monday’s live-streamed music performances, while a pair of country music queens, Brandy Clark and Ashley McBryde, get their own turns at serenading fans in this new world of web-only concerts.

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services.

With stellar albums from Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek, Selena Gomez and Grimes over the past few months, it’s been a hot stretch for the genre inaccurately but conveniently labelled “alt-pop” — and joining the group is this surprise release from France’s Christine and the Queens, who recently collaborated with two of the above artists.

Across her first two albums, Christine and the Queens (the project of French artist Heloïse Letissier) has established herself as a genuine pop virtuoso, equally adept at building immaculate hooks as well as the experience surrounding them.

Christine and the Queens have surprise released a new six-track EP called La vita nuova (via Because Music). She’s also shared a companion film of the same name, shot at Paris’ Palais Garnier by Colin Solal Cardo with choreography from Ryan Heffington (Sia’s “Chandelier”). Check them both out below. Find physical editions of La vita nuova at Rough Trade. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Christine and the Queens is back with a new single. It’s called “People, I’ve been sad” and it’s out now via Because Music. Watch her perform it on COLORS below.