If any one human embodies the sleazy-chic zeitgeist of what’s now known as indie sleaze, it’s Sébastien Tellier, the long-haired French touch revivalist who has kept his sunglasses on for 25 years. For half his lifetime, the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has been a beacon of French cool, balancing electro decadence with synth-pop sentimentality while touring with Air, releasing records with Ed Banger, and performing his single “La Ritournelle” to open the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. On his eighth album, Kiss the Beast, Tellier counters the cozy midlife bliss of 2020’s Domesticated with a cathartic and shamelessly cheesy love letter to pop. He channels his inner Serge Gainsbourg on “Mouton,” duets with Kid Cudi on the spacey “Amnesia,” and swings for the fences on “Thrill of the Night,” a barn burner with Nile Rodgers on guitar and Slayyyter reimagined as a ’70s disco diva.