Mylène Farmer

Mylenium Tour (Polydor)
by Michael McCarthy

Mylène Farmer‘s Mylenium Tour is a two CD set recorded during her 1999 tour. The Mylenium Tour video seems to have been filmed at the Paris Bercy shows, though the credits of the video and album fail to say for sure. Unfortunately, the discs don’t sound as vibrant as the concerts I attended did. The mix just isn’t right, to my ears. It’s like ice cream with too much air in it, a void existing between Mylène’s voice and the musicians who backed her. (During “Désenchantée” the clapping of the audience is almost as loud in the mix as the drums.) It’s not awful, but I much prefer her two prior double live albums, En Concert and Live à Bercy, which sound so superb that some naysayers don’t think they’re live concert recordings.