Gainsbourg: 'My album is really Beck's'

Charlotte Gainsbourg has said that her second album IRM should rightly be called a Beck record.

The follow-up to 2006's 5:55 - which was written by Air, Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon - was mainly penned and produced by Beck.

Gainsbourg told The Daily Telegraph of her latest release: "It's Beck's. I hope I inspired him. But he wrote everything."

Of her move from acting to singing, she added: "I don't analyse why I do it, I just want to do it. I get a lot of pleasure out of it, even though its not all to do with pleasure. I don't consider myself a singer and I don't really want to analyse why or wherefore

"I put enough weight on my shoulders because of my father [Serge Gainsbourg], so I don't really want to bother about if its legitimate or not. I'm just able to do it, so I feel lucky."

Of her father's death in 1991, she added: "I had a very weird relationship to music when he died - everything became very painful. It's because he's not here anymore that its so difficult for me, because I have to deal with the loss, and he's there all the time.

"I can hear his music, all the lyrics, I hear any word, it's a reference to a song of his. I think that's the main reason I chose to sing in English. I needed a little bit of distance."