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Dans la mer aussi il y a des étoiles (translated as - ‘in the sea also there are stars’) is the much anticipated new French album by starry-eyed songstress Melanie Horsnell. Funded by a highly successful Pozible Campaign, the album was born in a 6 month residency in France where Horsnell travelled the countryside from Marseille to Bourgogne to Paris with her two young daughters, writing songs with French poet Alain Rivet and French pop icon Helena Noguerra. Dans la mer aussi il y a des étoiles is a whimsical romantic offering of whispery laments, haunting cities and lonely souls sketched out by the signature feathery voice of Melanie Horsnell. The album unfolds with the dreamy ballad ‘Etoiles’ (stars) which tells the story of a sculptor in an old dusty artist’s studio ‘in your eyes there are stars, in your heart there is sun… that is how I love you’. There’s songs of dark yearning – ‘Marseille’ (about a woman who’s called Marseille by her lover) alongside cheeky jaunts such as