Point de Suture is the seventh studio album by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer, and her 14th album overall. Preceded by the lead single "Dégénération", it was released digitally on August 20, 2008, then on CD five days later. This album, which contains especially songs with electro sonorities, marked an important musical change in the singer's career. Variously received in the media which, mainly, criticized it for a lack of innovation, the album had success on the French, Swiss, Belgian, Russian and Greek charts. For the name of this album, Farmer drew her inspiration from Al Pacino's sentence in the 1993 film Carlito's Way, that which appears inside the digipack : "All the stitches of the world cannot sew us again". The photos illustrating this album were made by a Japanese photographer. The cover as well as the booklet show a doll covered with scars, with surgical instruments in the foreground. Inside, there is only a sole photo of Farmer, turned back. This album was announced as being very different from the previous ones in musical and promotional terms. About this album, Farmer explained during an interview : "If I compare it with Avant que l'ombre..., it will probably be more electronic... with many "up tempo" songs". In this album there is a little bit of all the universes that characterize Mylène's albums: melancholy ballads, songs with electro / techno sounds, club-friendly and pop-rock songs The subjects in this album are "sexuality, uneasiness, mantras,