Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top features twelve cover versions of French pop songs by artists including Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Dutronc.

[6] In the film, Timothée Chalamet's character sits in the café called Les Sans Blague's while listening to Cocker, as Tip-Top, singing "Aline".

[8] Anderson and his music supervisor Randall Poster suggested Cocker make an album of Tip-Top's greatest hits.

[7][8] Cocker and Anderson decided to collaborate on a full companion album, featuring covers of songs that were originally released during the period that The French Dispatch is set in.

The album opens with Dalida's "Dans ma chambre", featuring Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor organ.

Cocker's duet features Lætitia Sadier and prioritises piano, bass, hand drums, and string arrangements over the original's prevalent guitar.

The funk track "Elle et moi" is a rendition of the 1980s new beat song by Max Berlin, with Cocker providing a dramatic reading vocal style inspired by the original.

Cocker's cover is characterised by its heavy reverb and booming drums, harpsichord, string arrangements and ethereal backing vocals.

[4] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic called the album "Intriguing from beginning to end" and praised Cocker's "lush, emphatic takes.