A Serge Gainsbourg-like provocateur for a new generation, this poetry-slamming speak-singer released his debut album in 2001. Amid samples and loops, Papillon Paravel delivers witty, poetic, and kooky spiels about his sexual obsessions, creative frustrations, and the small things he observes near his home in Toulouse. Paravel added a hard-rocking band on later albums, the better to both parody and celebrate mainstream pop from a self-deprecating outsider's point of view.