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NPR is streaming Charlotte Gainsbourg's Beck-produced/co-written album over at their First Listen site . It's really good . Based loosely on health scares the singer/actress endured a few years back following a brain hemorrhage, IRM (MRI in French) is an atmospheric, murky and ebullient pop and electro-folk record that is every bit as good as, say, The Reminder by Feist. But also a little weirder and less defined than that album. Beck's widescreen, motley sonic musings are unmistakable. . [...]