Coup de Grâce (Mink DeVille album)

Coup de Grâce is the fourth album by the rock band Mink DeVille, released in 1981.

The album represented a departure for the band, as frontman Willy DeVille dismissed the only other remaining original member of the band, guitarist Louis X. Erlanger, and hired Helen Schneider's backup band ("The Kick") to record the album.

Dutch rock magazine OOR named Coup de Grâce the fifth best album of 1981.

[5] AllMusic said about Coup de Grâce: The Record said about the album, "Coup de Grâce recapitulates and resolves the themes of Le Chat Bleu in an intriguing blend of soul-pop and razor-edged rock.

Its influences are as distant as The Drifters and as contemporary as Bruce Springsteen.