The songs of Dominique A are restless and unsettled. He's a radical traditionalist in the Thom Yorke mould, often working within the familiar texture of classic French chanson, but weaving in details from other, more modern musical forms—stabbing Tom Waits guitar over placid Casiotone in “Va t'en” or the big Radiohead finish in “L'horizon”—to keep everyone on their toes. Fittingly, his breakthrough hit “Le courage des oiseaux” is existential electro-pop that pushes his voice into a keening trill some distance from its natural purr.