Elisa Tovati's second career as a singer of earnest pop is a break from her day job as one of France's most popular movie stars. She often sings with an ear on the melancholy twists and folky self-recrimination of Gallic popular chanson, and the whispery influence of Serge Gainsbourg in her vocal delivery is not hard to spot. But there's also a harder edge; some of her songs lean towards flinty New York indie rock. In either case, there's an unmistakable purring authority to her voice, as she explores the full emotional reality of the songs like a true actor.