BEING YOUNG AND LIVING AT NIGHT

everything that fifteen year old girls think is interesting the first time they go on the tumblr

2012-02-11T01:54:00.000+01:00

best club song ever

Girl Unit - Wut

not blogging enough i guess

2012-01-26T17:03:00.000+01:00

crew love

2011-11-28T00:26:00.001+01:00

Too much partying lately. All kind of parties. Techno parties, gay parties, posh parties, electro parties. I'm lost again, I feel so sad and so confused during daytime. But fortunately, I have my crew. Les copains d'abord forever.

Square Mode - One Way (Clément Roussel Remix)

catchy guitars

2011-10-26T10:33:00.000+02:00

Three songs that don't have much to do with each other, except they all have catchy guitar riffs in them.

Twin Sister - Gene Ciampi
Surf Noir - Sunburn
Beach Fossils - Distance

CLFT_

2011-09-26T17:14:00.002+02:00

Last week I filmed the CLFT launch party at DV1, Lyon (France). I tried not to make it look like a random party video. No "put your hands in the air", no stupid girls trying to look sexy. Don't know if i succeeded. Anyway, here's a free mp3 by Splatter.

minimum

2011-09-15T19:52:00.000+02:00

Perfect minimal/melancholic/comedown song from Berlin producer Anno, with vocals from Jennifer Cardini and Shonky's track Tuesday Paranoia. Some kind of emotional techno.

Un morceau minimal/mélancolique/redescente parfait du dj berlin Anno, avec des voix qui viennent de la chanson Tuesday Paranoia, de Jennifer Cardini et Shonky. Une sorte de techno émotionelle imparable.

Anno - Paranoia

Ps: If you like this, check out my friend's Botine not less amazing track Eratosthen.

8✝0

2011-09-15T19:21:00.000+02:00

Since a few days I've started listening to some eighties new wave-cold wave-italo-synth wave bands again. I found some pretty amazing songs.

Depuis quelques jours, je me suis remis à écouter des groupes années 1980 new wave-cold wave- italo-synth wave. Et j'ai trouvé quelques chansons assez incroyables.

Lee Marrow - Sayonara
Elli & Jacno - Bienvenüe L'âge Atomique
Moderne - Switch On Bach
Deux - Dance With Me & Décadence

love

2011-09-06T16:02:00.000+02:00

euphoria, energy, empathy, escape

Glass Candy - Warm In The Winter [buy]

fresh and clean

2011-09-02T00:41:00.002+02:00

Amazing music video by Eugene Kotlyarenko for San Francisco's Dominant Legs. I'm amazed by how simple and fresh and honest this is (both video and song). It could be another random indie clichéd music video with a boy and a girl running around, but it's not. It is somehow different. Hannah and Ryan are genuinely beautiful and they move so gracefully. It's unexplainable. View the video here.

Super chouette clip de Eugene Kotlyarenko pour le quintet de San Francisco Dominant Legs. Je suis vraiment impressionné, c'est tellement simple, frais et honnête (aussi bien la chanson que la vidéo). Ça pourrait être un énième clip rempli de clichés indie, mais ça ne l'est pas. C'est différent, je ne saurais même pas dire exactement pourquoi. Hannah et Ryan sont naturellement beaux et ils bougent de manière tellement gracieuse. C'est insaisissable et inexplicable du coup. Regardez le clip ici.

Dominant Legs - Hoop Of Love

blue

2011-08-28T14:35:00.000+02:00

I know this song is old, but it still has the best lyrics in the world.

JJ - Still

mini hits

2011-08-19T11:03:00.004+02:00

I'm getting a bit tired of experimental-esoteric-shoegazy-enigmatic-foggy-internet bands. So, here's a series of hits. Instantly catchy and moving. No posturing.

pure euphoria
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Delorean remix) [buy]

forest happiness
Luke Temple - Ophelia

digital violence
High Places - Year Off

shining stars
Craft Spells - After the Moment [buy]

post-modern sadness
Lana Del Rey - Video Games

scandinavian warmth
Museum Of Bellas Artes - Days Ahead [buy]

still sweet

2011-08-12T02:09:00.003+02:00

Air France - It Feels To Be Around You
Produced by Star Slinger

warm you

2011-07-26T15:07:00.002+02:00

Playful and aquatic and soft and euphoric and shiny.

Botany - Waterparker

Picture by Claire M

lindisfarne

2011-07-20T01:27:00.002+02:00

This is much better than Martin de Turah's previous video for James Blake. Actually it's pretty much better than every music videos I've seen this year. A simple and wonderful and heartbreaking goodbye story. Watch it, really.

James Blake - Lindisfarne [buy]

cataluña

2011-07-10T22:07:00.004+02:00

John Talabot's perfect beats meet Glasser's ethereal voice.

John Talabot - Families [buy]

long nights

2011-06-09T22:31:00.002+02:00

Feeling a bit schizo since a few months. Listening randomly to indie pop, old school rnb, and minimal.

Cass McCombs - County Line [buy]
Panteros666 - X Lova [buy]

Inner City - Watcha Gonna Do With My Lovin [buy]

Picture by Hélène Feuillebois

new england

2011-05-25T00:33:00.003+02:00

Jamie XX - Far Nearer [buy]
Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off [buy]
Jessie Ware & Sampha - Valentine [buy]
XXXY - Ordinary Things [buy]

soleil de minuit

2011-03-28T15:26:00.001+02:00

New compilation I did for Magic rpm. First sun rays, leaving winter behind. Balearic pop, swedish kids, lukewarm breeze.

Tracklist
Beach House - Winter Sun (Blackbird Blackbird remix)
Korallreven - Honey Mine (ft. Victoria Bergsman)
Star Slinger - Mornin'
Air France - Windmill Wedding
The Tough Alliance - Holiday
Saint Etienne - Sylvie
CFCF - You Hear Colours
and more...

Download it here.

exotic brooklyn

2011-03-03T14:44:00.002+01:00

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark synths, afro pop drums, cute girl singing.
Tropicold, flower necklace, snake, desert, color pencils.

Rainbow Arabia - Without You

a month ago

2011-02-24T04:49:00.002+01:00

During winter holidays, I directed a music video for Happy Trendy with my friends. Snow, light leaks, countryside, mountains, baths, girl in panties, and woods.

Music video here.

Song download here.

too late to love

2011-01-13T07:29:00.000+01:00

Priroda is Vadim Melnikov, a twenty three year-old from the Ural Mountains, Russia. He makes lo-fi indie pop songs that smell like snow and early morning despair. Jangly guitars, intimate vocals, repetitive hooks floating in space. "Microcosmos" is particularly amazing.

Priroda. - Microcosmos

blue winter

2010-12-26T21:05:00.000+01:00

Perpetual night, cold wind, melting snow, warm insides, antidepressant pills, fake christmas tree, antique clock, sleeping problem. And a wonderful soothing, lo-fi and melodic electro pop jam.

Nuit perpétuelle, bourrasques froides, neige qui fond, intérieurs chauds, antidépresseurs, sapin de noël en plastique, vieille horloge bruillante, problèmes de sommeil. Et un morceau electro pop légèrement lo-fi merveilleux.

Neato Fleets - Today Pills (download full EP for free here)

top songs of 2010

2010-12-23T04:03:00.004+01:00

Indie Rock
Wise Blood - Solo (4 Claire)
Generationals - Trust [buy]
Cloud Nothings - Understand It All [buy]

Indie Pop
Seapony - Late Summer [buy]
Childhood - Blue Velvet
Girls - Heartbreaker [buy]

Lo-Fi
Young Prisms - Sugar
Dead Gaze - Take Me Home or I Die Alone [buy]
Reading Rainbow - Wasting Time [buy]

Electro
D/R/U/G/S - Love (Love/Lust)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Let Me Tell You [buy]
Toujours - Water

Electro Pop
Museum Of Bellas Artes - Watch The Glow [buy]
Mr Little Jeans - Rescue Song
Prizes - Canada

Experimental
Baths - Animals [buy]
Gold Panda - You [buy]
Raw Moans - Rose Bath

Minimal
Renart - Butlerian Jihad [buy]
Isolée - Six One Box [buy]
Gesaffelstein - A Lost Era [buy]

Remixes

Keep Shelly in Athens - Running Out Of You (Memory Tapes version)

Deerhunter - Helicopter (Star Slinger remix)

Japayork - Teenagers (Unicorn Kid remix)

Covers

Still Corners - Eyes (Rogue Wave cover)

Yuck - Despite everything (Porcelain Raft cover)

trop tard

2010-11-29T01:02:00.012+01:00

vomit, free fall, unwanted sexual intercourse, depression, wake up at dawn, valium, bathroom, hot water, razor blade.

vomi, chute libre, relation sexuelle non désirée, dépression, réveil à l'aube, valium, salle de bain, eau chaude, rasoir.

Geneva Jacuzzi - Do I Sad ? [buy]
photo by Salomé Panda.

hangover music

2010-10-28T19:46:00.004+02:00

I did a compilation for French music magazine Magic Rpm, it's some kind of therapy for hangover days, when electro kicks and lo-fi guitar waves are unbearable. Pale, soft, and atmospherical.

J'ai fait une compilation pour Magic Rpm, elle est conçu pour se soigner les lendemains de soirées, ou les beats electro et les guitares saturées sont insupportables. Des musiques pâles, cotonneuse, et atmosphérique.

Download it HERE.

Tracklist :
01. Ricky Eat Acid - Balloons
02. Arp - The Rising Sun
03. Emeralds - Candy Shoppe
04. CVLTS - Radd Pitt
05. Mathemagic - Sequin
06. Isabelle Antena - Noelle À Hawaii
07. Kisses - Weekend In Brooklyn
08. Woven Tales - God Helmet
09. Air France - Windmill Wedding
10. Julian Lynch - Banana Jam Pt. 1

Photo by Luna Cedron

young and lost club

2010-10-06T12:32:00.004+02:00

Gigs and after gigs. Delorean playing at San Sebastian (Spain), one of my friends throwing up in front of a McDonald's, Cold Pumas at some festival and the same friend in the middle of a spanish street.

diy magic

2010-10-06T01:39:00.004+02:00

Computer Magic is Daz. She's 19 year-old or so. She does everything herself (vocals, synth, beats), probably in some tiny bedroom. There's some kind of teenage feeling emanating from her songs, but also a great deal of melancholy, that strangely reminds me of some The Shangri-Las tracks. She has a strong voice, she's cute, and has some catchy (though profound) melodies. Soon to blow up.

Computer Magic c'est Daz. Elle doit avoir dans les 19 ans. Elle fait tout elle-même (voix, synthés, rythmes), sans doute depuis une chambre un peu trop petite. Une sorte de sentiment d'adolescence émane de ces morceaux mignons et éthérés, mais il y a aussi une mélancolie tenace qui couve, et qui me rappelle bizarrement certaines chansons des Shangri-Las. Elle a une voix cool, elle est mimi, et elle a des mélodies accrocheuses (et pourtant pas superficielles). Ça pourrait bientôt cartonner.

Computer Magic - Electronic Fences

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++ Her two EPs are available for download on her nice website here.

one two twee

2010-09-28T02:28:00.009+02:00

Fuck major labels. The Orchids - Peaches Fuck studio recording. Another Sunny Day - Impossible Fuck girls with fake tits and make up. The Wake - Carbrain Fuck hard-muscled guys with gold necklaces. Blueboy - The Joy Of Living Fuck autotune St Christopher - All Of a Tremble

/
Viva Sarah.

photos by & Katherine Squier & Lucia

bitter dawns

2010-09-21T11:10:00.011+02:00

Seen too many dawns. The sky getting blue, birds starting to sing. The alcohol and drugs effects fading out. Taking the first subway of the day at 4:30AM. Just wanting to rest in a soft white bed, or lay on a rooftop with something airy playing in your headphones.

J'ai vu trop d'aubes. Le ciel qui bleuit, les oiseaux qui se mettent à chanter. Les effets de l'alcool et des drogues qui s'effacent, et qui laissent un vide. Prendre le premier métro de la journée à 4h30 du matin. Juste vouloir se reposer dans un lit blanc et onctueux ou s'allonger sur un toit, avec quelque chose de planant dans tes écouteurs.

Eachothers - Heavy Swim

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last summer hit of the summer

2010-08-31T17:01:00.009+02:00

It's almost september. Most of my friends left in different cities where they'll study various stuff. High school is over. I feel depressed. I want to be 17 forever. I think we're all still stuck in the summer, as if we lived in a sunny Best Coast song. Crazy For You is my favorite song from the album. It makes me travel back to the summer. Smoking weed in the afternoon, kissing girls in garden parties, riding bikes through the fields with some friends, taking the train at night, climbing rooftops to see the dawn, getting drunk on cheap beer and swimming in dirty rivers.

On est bientôt en septembre. La plupart de mes amis sont partis dans des villes différentes pour leurs études. Le lycée est bien fini. Je me sens super déprimé, je veux avoir 17 ans pour toujours et je crois que je suis pas le seul. Les statuts facebook des gens sont du même genre : "adieu mes amis, le départ", "bonjour enfer" ou encore "goodbye youth". Je crois qu'on est tous restés bloqué en été, comme si on vivait dans une chanson lumineuse de Best Coast. Crazy For You est ma chanson préférée de l'album. Elle fait voyager dans un été idéal, comme si nos meilleurs souvenirs s'additionnaient. Fumer de la weed pendant l'après-midi, embrasser des filles sur des pelouses en soirées, faire du vélo à travers les champs avec des copains, prendre le train de nuit, escalader des toits pour voir l'aube, se souler à la bière forte, et nager dans des rivières dégueulasses.

Best Coast - Crazy For You [buy]

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fucked up teenagers

2010-08-22T21:35:00.000+02:00

highschool, sleepless nights, blood stains, indie pop, hospital, lust, atmospheric lights, dizziness, painkillers, boringness, depression, bitter dawns, film rolls, smoking on rooftops, pizzas and shyness.

Spectrals - It's OK (Not To Be OK) [buy]

My Teenage Stride - Creep Academy [buy]

Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid

Yuck - Georgia

All Saints Day - It'll Come Around

homeless summer

2010-08-07T13:52:00.009+02:00

Shot with disposable cameras.

add to favorites

2010-08-01T14:08:00.013+02:00

This is the songs I loved the most since the beginning of the 2010. I know it's not the end of the year, and maybe some of these songs were released before 2010. I'm just glad I found the time and the courage to do this post. I'm hungover and in a sleeping bag.

Indie Rock

Oberhofer - Away Frm U

Harlem - Friendly Ghost [buy]

Stunts - Felt

Indie Pop

Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday [buy]

Yuck - Georgia

Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt

Electro

Baths - Hail [buy]

Crystal Castles - Suffocation [buy]

Solar Bears - 14 Neon Colony

Dream Pop

Taken By Trees - The Sweetness of Air France [buy]

Slow Motion Shoes - Brendan Fraser

Kisses - Bermuda [buy]

Electro Pop

Thieves Like Us - Shyness [buy]

Miracles Club - A New Love [buy]

Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds [buy]

Lo-Fi

Pill Wonder - Restless [buy]

Weed Diamond - Mint in My Mouth

Trash Kit - Cadets [buy]

Experimental

Julian Lynch - Banana Jam Pt. 1 [buy]

Candy Claws - Lantern Fish [buy]

Tamaryn - Sandstone [buy]

Remixes

Health - Die Slow (Nite Jewel Remix) [buy]

David Rubato - Circuit (Aeroplane Remix) [buy]

Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Tanlines Remix) [buy]

Covers

Svilla - You Can Count Me (Panda Bear Cover)

Real Estate - My Molly (Ariel Pink Cover)

Banjo Or Freakout - From Stardust To Sentience (High Places Cover)

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Fanzine interview

2010-07-20T01:06:00.010+02:00

Can you tell me how the members of Fanzine met?

Ed and Kit went to nursery together and I met Kit in primary school. We met Billy in secondary school and we've all just been sort of hanging out since. If we weren't in a band it'd be quite depressing knowing that our social circle hasn't expanded since we were twelve but we are so it's sort of OK.

Have you recorded your songs in a commercial studio or in a homemade studio?

I've got a portable 8 track so we just take that to where there's space to record drums or whatever, then Ed mixes it all on Logic. I think ideally we'd like to have our own home studio set up, but none of us have the money at the moment so we're just doing it where we can. I don't know how well we'd take to recording in a proper studio though, we like keeping things as self contained as possible.

It is often said about Fanzine that you manage to find a balance between the indie pop sound and the modern sound. Could you name a few bands, old ones and new ones, that inspire your music ?

Blur are a band we always look to as striking a great balance between really good, classic songwriting and always being stylistically cool, especially early stuff like Modern Life Is Rubbish. Early Weezer are another big influence for a similar reason.

We're all really into heavy stuff too; bands like Deftones, Black Sabbath and Kyuss. Essentially metal bands who in one way or another transcend the genre and make music that's awesome, as a lot of metal is, but intelligent and in some way"other". It was a love of stuff like this that brought us together initially and we still try keep an element of it aspects of our music.

Do you think that living in London has influenced your music ?
Only as much as living anywhere would influence what you do. We certainly wouldn't think of ourselves as epitomizing anything inherently "LONDON", or even English in our sound or style. We leave that to Dizzee Rascal.

Do you consider your songs as translations of moments and memories, or on the contrary as universal stories anyone can identify to?

Hopefully a bit of both i guess. There's certainly nothing elitist about our sound, musically or lyrically; we've never set out to appeal to any one group of people. Having said that we wouldn't presume that anyone at all would identify with our songs, which is a shame really as we want to be doing a stadium tour of the American south by this time next year. If not sooner.

It seems to me that your lyrics are pretty cinematic. Do you watch a lots of movies ? If so, what are your all-time favorites, the ones you can watch over and over ?

Fanzine do indeed watch a lot of movies. Perhaps too many. Our tastes, like anyone's really, are pretty diverse, but there are definitely a few films which have influenced us collectively as a band. We're all really into the films of John Carpenter. He seems to walk a thin but invariably awesome line between intelligent mainstream American cinema and the B, or even C-movie. He makes all the music for his films too; very minimal, often very scary stuff which sounds like it was all made on a single Casio keyboard by a deranged teenager. Which it probably was actually. As well as being very cool, enjoyable movies, John Carpenter films also tend to have Kurt Russell in, which is no bad thing.

In terms of things we've watched again and again, we'd have to site Cannibal The Musical, the first movie by Trey Stone and Matt Parker, the guys who made South Park. They made it when they were still at college and it's very very low budget. It's a parody of stuff like OKLAHOMA! and other manic Broadway musicals, and as well its being really very funny, I think what we all like about it as a band are the quality of the songs in it. We recommend youtubing these as it's difficult for us to properly describe how a song about cannibal's love for his horse can be both funny and musically challenging.

Did you play with other bands before Fanzine ?

We've all played music with each other on and off since we were like 14. Jock and Ed have written music since before that probably. An early incantation of what is now Fanzine was the prolific death metal band Clawhammer. We recorded one song, 'Roaming the Plains' for our GCSE music course before deciding that the world wasn't quite ready for us yet. I think we're actually going to put this song up on our blog soon so look out for that.

Is there a particular band or producer that you'd like to collaborate with ?

I think we're all in agreement that there's only one man in the world right now who could get the best of us in the studio; Timbaland.

If he's not available we'll make do with Rivers Cuomo or Graham Coxon.

Did your drummer Billy really go to a monastery in India to hone his drumming technique ?

Yes

What are your upcoming projects ? Particular expectations/wishes for the
future ?

We're just finishing up some recordings at the moment. Three songs to be exact. Work has been slow and arduous as we're recording it all ourselves but they're sounding good and will be done very shortly, at which point we were thinking it might be cool to release an E.P. We've been writing a lot of new stuff too, and have a bunch of shows lined over the next month or so.

In terms of expectations, if we're not signed to Fred Durst's record company and embarking on a world tour with Kid Rock by the Autumn, we're splitting up.

Fanzine - Susan

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summer hits

2010-07-12T16:26:00.002+02:00

La Femme est pleine de contrastes et d'ambiguïtés. Marche dans la rue ou ivresse sur la plage? Navigation cold wave ou surf music? Apologie de l'été ou critique de son côté superficiel ? Second degré ou adolescence ?

On peut aussi ne pas se poser trop de questions et comprendre que leurs chansons sont supers justement parce qu'elles mélangent des atmosphères très éloignées. Ils sont jeunes et viennent de Paris et Biarritz, et savent aussi bien faire du mystère à l'ancienne, de la froideur des années 1980 et une sorte d'hédonisme provocant. Voila maintenant on sait qu'on peut surfer habillé en noir, pas de problèmes, merci La Femme. Leur nouveau single, Télégraphe, est sorti sur la nouvelle compilation Beko, cs1 disponible en téléchargement gratuit!

+Lisez l'interview d'eux que j'ai faite pour Magic rpm ici.

La Femme (which means "the women" in French) is a band full of ambiguities. Is their music like a walk in the streets or a race on the beach ? A cold wave or a surf music navigation ? A summer apologia or a criticism of its superficiality ?

Though, maybe it's better not to ask too much question and to understand that La Femme's songs are great because of these ambiguities. They're pretty young (20 years old), from Paris and Biarritz and they manage to mix eclectic atmospheres and they go pop. Some old school mystery, coldness from the 1980's and a kind of provocative hedonism. Now you know that you can go surfing dressed in black, no problem. Their new single, titled Télégraphe, is available for free on the new Beko compilation. Download it here!

La Femme - Sur la Plage

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scintillements sonores

2010-07-11T13:02:00.010+02:00

Candy Claws

In the Dream of the Sea Life

Indiecater Records, 2009

Immersion sous-marine. Retenir son apnée pour pouvoir admirer les fonds marins hypnotiques. Guidé par sept rêveurs de Fort Collins, qui se sont rencontrés dans des églises évangéliques et se sont baptisés Candy Claws, la plongée se fait en douceur, au milieu d'une explosion de scintillements sonores. Conçu comme une métaphore du livre documentaire The Sea Around Us de Rachel Carson, In The Dream Of the Sea Life accentue encore la dimension onirique présente dans le livre. C'est pas du psychédélisme, parce que c'est pas grandiloquent ni chiant, mais ça fait planer pendant des heures.

Là où leurs potes américains aquatiques comme Real Estate, Sad City, Family Portrait ou Beach Fossils se basent sur la simplicité des guitares lo-fi et de rythmiques garage, les Candy Claws construisent un éventail chatoyant fait de voix shoegaze, de mélodies souterraines qui se révèlent au fur et à mesure des écoutes, d'entremêlements vertigineux de synthés et de guitares acoustiques... Ils versent jamais dans l'exubérance à la Grizzly Bear, on dirait que leur maitrise donne une cohérence narrative au disque, alternant plongées ralentie dans les fonds (Lantern Fish, Diving Knife) et apparitions éthérées à la surface (The Sun si My Girl, Snowy Shores, Starry Fighter Kite). Catamaran montre aussi le potentiel euphorisant des chansons de Candy Claws : pourtant presque dénuée de rythmique, ce morceau nous entraîne dans son sillage avec une puissance émotionnelle assez dingue. La mélodie, portée par des voix sybillines et une guitare hypnotique, irradie d'une lumière douce mais imparable. Lantern Fish est super puissante également, et elle finit dans une sorte de transe electronique qui reste dans la tête pendant longtemps.

Candy Claws montrent avec In the Dream of the Sea Life que ce sont des sacrés navigateurs qui savent se ballader entre expérimental cotonneuse et folk marine panthéiste. Cet album est voyage qui évite tous les pièges arty, grâce à des chansons vachement inventives, et qui explore des océans variées tout en restant unifié par une esthétique translucide et surannée.

Candy Claws - Catamaran

[Achetez l'album sur iTunes]

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pâles et nerveux

2010-07-09T12:30:00.014+02:00

Je déteste la musique française. Que ce soit la variété française, la pop ou pire le rap français. Il y a même eu du rock & roll français et de la disco française, et je déteste ces trucs de la même façon. Je trouvais la culture musicale française vraiment super pauvre, et absolument éloignée de tout ce que j'aime.

Sauf que j'ai découvert que de 1979 au milieu des années 1980, il y a eu des groupes vachement biens. La plupart des gens n'ont connu que les plus médiatisés à l'époque (Indochine, Lio, Taxi Girl...), mais il y avait une scène underground incroyable. Des groupes qui ressemblaient beaucoup aux groupes indie d'aujourd'hui : fauchés, perdus et humbles. Pas de messages politiques, pas de lyrisme, pas de chaleur mais beaucoup de mödernité : la new wave française. Y en a qui vont dire que ça sonne ringard, moi je préfère écouter ça à des groupes soit-disant actuels comme The Drums ou Two Door Cinema Club. Vive la France et vive les années 1980.

Une sélection de mes morceaux favoris issus de cette vague éphémère et glacée:

Performance - Idéal Présent

Liaisons Dangereuses - Etre Assis ou Danser

Mathématiques Modernes - Disco Rough

Moderne - Electronique

Deux - Game and Performance

Elli et Jacno - Les Nuits de Pleine Lune

Modern Guy - Electrique Sylvie

Ruth - Polaroid Roman Photo

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Larousse Baron Bic

Pour télécharger les chansons, cliquez ICI.

La plupart de ces morceaux sont durs à trouver aujourd'hui, mais vous pouvez les acheter via des chouettes compilations.

BIPPP [acheter sur Amazon.com]

Minimal Wave Tapes [acheter sur Amazon.com]

So Young But So Cold acheter sur [Amazon.com]

summer hits

2010-07-04T19:48:00.014+02:00

Kisses avait ouvert les festivités avec leur mini-tube Bermuda. Les anglais de Slow Motion Shoes ripostent avec une autre sucrerie magique et fraîche. Ils revendiquent étrangement l'acteur Brendan Fraser comme inspiration principale, mais ça ressemble assez à une private joke. Mais avec ses loops de synthés hyper catchy et un rythme très posé, leur titre phare (très étonnamment appellée Brendan Fraser) est juste parfait, un condensé de nostalgie instantanée estivale.

Bientôt, pleins d'autres tubes ensoleillés, ce n'est que le début.

Kisses started the summer with their hit Bermuda. Manchester's Slow Motion Shoes strike back with another wonderfully sweet song. Apparently they consider actor Brendan Fraser as a their major influence (which is probably some kind of private joke). Anyway, with its super catchy synth loops and its steady beat, their main song (surprinsingly titled... Brendan Fraser) is absolutely perfect : a condensate of instant summery nostalgia.

Coming soon many more sunny hit songs, this is only the beginning.

Slow Motion Shoes - Brendan Fraser

(to dowload the mp3 file, right-click + save as)

good songs / shitty music videos

2010-06-23T20:24:00.013+02:00

✝ This video kills all the mystery that was surrounding Crystal Castles.

✝ This one is boring.

And it doesn't even look good : it seems that the director tried

to make digital look like analogical, but it looks totally fake.

✝ This one is the worst. It's super boring and super lame.

It's a pity because the song is pretty nice.

abandoned soviet buildings

2010-06-19T14:42:00.009+02:00

In april, we shot a fashion series for Vice magazine in Warszawa. The day we arrived was also the day the president (and most of the government) died in the plane crash. Special thanks to Szymon.

Mathématiques Modernes - Disco Rough [buy]

(french synth-wave band from the 1980's)

oversleeping on trampolines

2010-06-06T20:31:00.012+02:00

This isn't exactly night music. But you're all indie pop kids deep inside. Don't lie to yourselves. So here's a compilation full of jangly guitar riffs, sweet choirs, innocent teenage love stories, and collapses; played by contemporary bands. The legacy of Sarah Records.

Tracklist:

Summer Cats - In June

Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid

caUSE Co-MOTION - Who's Gonna Care

Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls - Merry Christmas Baby

Kid Trails - Christmas

The Manhattan Love Suicides - Suzy Jones

My Teenage Stride - Creep Academy

Sea Lions - I Loved Her So Much

Sisters - Glue

Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday

Yuck - Georgia

Pearl Harbor - Luv Goon

Tennis - Baltimore

Pants Yell - Magenta and Green

and many more...

Download it here.

picture by Ana Kras & Jordan Carroll

dear diary : last months of highschool

2010-06-04T17:57:00.007+02:00

this is how we prepare ourselves for the BAC exam (= A Levels).

trash kitties

2010-05-30T23:19:00.008+02:00

There are so many girl bands playing nice lo-fi songs these days. It's nice, but some of them seems a bit fake to me, like the Dum Dum Girls. I have the feeling that they're just following a trend. However, some gals sound like they're really having fun doing their stuff. Trash Kit are my favorites : their songs are pretty wild and lo-fi, but still they manage to make them nice to listen to (and to dance to). Think of three teenage girls playing like Wetdog or Coasting.

Il y a un nombre assez impropable de groupes de filles lo-fi ces temps-ci. C'est cool, mais certains paraissent un peu fake, comme les Dum Dum Girls. On a comme le sentiment qu'elles font que surfer sur une mode.

Après il y a des nenettes qui donnent l'impression de vraiment s'amuser. Trash Kit sont mes préférées : leurs chansons sont assez à l'arrache et lo-fi, mais elles font en sorte que ça reste hyper agréable à écouter. Et hyper efficace pour faire danser. Pour vous faire une idée, imaginez trois adolescentes qui joueraient des chansons à la Wetdog ou Coasting.

Trash Kit - Fame [buy]

(to dowload the mp3 file, right-click + save as)

waiting for the summer

2010-05-29T18:11:00.018+02:00

Summer is here, but you're in highschool and you have to work for end-of-year exams. But of course you don't. Instead you stupidly listen to dance songs with headphones.

This song by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs is really fresh. You can listen to it and dance inside your head. Finally there's a band who knows how to use 8-bits elements without sounding like pale copies of Crystal Castles.

L'été est là, mais tu es au lycée et tu devrais réviser pour les examens de fin d'année. Bien sûr tu ne le fais pas. Au lieu de ça, tu écoutes stupidement des chansons dansantes dans un casque audio. Et tu fantasmes en imaginant les moments où tu pourras les écouter avec un volume sonore maximum.

Cette chanson par les anglais de Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs est super rafraichissante, catchy et dansante. Et puis voila enfin un groupe qui arrive à utiliser des éléments 8-bit sans sonner comme une vague copie de Crystal Castles.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden [buy]

pictures by Doe-Eyes

dream machine

2010-05-16T14:33:00.012+02:00

These songs will make you fly high. They make me think about waves, summer evenings, rooftops, valium, and plastic blags.

Kisses - Bermuda [buy]

Memory Cassette - Surfin (Sail a Whale version) [buy]

Candy Claws - Catamaran [buy]

photo by Talena Sanders

let it go

2010-05-16T04:44:00.010+02:00

Thieves Like Us - Shyness [buy]

from the album Again and Again

out now on DeBonton/Shelflife

Video edited by me

dear diary : Warsaw, PL

2010-05-07T14:10:00.014+02:00

we went to Warsaw just when the president and all the government died in the plane crash. everybody in Poland was sad, except our polish friends who didn't give a shit. we also did a shooting for Vice magazine over there. Cool week, cool photo shoot and cool atmosphere.

In the apartment we were subletting there was an old hi-fi that could read CDs but in which we couldn't plug any iPods and stuff. So we listened to the Tigersushi compilation over and over again. There are some amazing songs on it. Our favorite was this perfect deviant disco song : Gina X Performance - No GDM

photos by Luna Cedron

holiday

2010-04-21T01:39:00.012+02:00

Sweet indie pop meets dubstep,

Thieves like us meet Peter Bjorn and John

HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS

life: une soirée typique dans la province française

2010-04-01T19:12:00.015+02:00

Arrivée 20h

Etant invité seul avec un autre pote, c'est naturellement à 3 que nous nous pointons. Les personnes avaient apparemment commencé sans nous car on servait de l'alcool à ces abominations. Tant mieux! Pour certains, la fête était déjà finie, je repense notamment à cette pauvre fille qui a dû tristement nous quitter. Nous nous accaparons quelques bouteilles et décidons de balancer quelques morceaux à la guitare, basse.

20h30

Au bout d'1/2 heure, nous lâchons nos instruments et buvons allègrement à notre empire colonial. Cependant, le combat fut rude et je perdis un de mes camarade victime de multiples "reflux éthyliques".

21h

Ceci nous valu une sortie afin d'aller promener notre presque défunt camarade: c'est ça, la camaraderie. Mon camarade justifia son état par "une recherche de la vie" (je cite).

23h

Après avoir flashé quelques voitures avec un APN et avoir bien couru, nous décidons de rentrer. Une fois de retour des gens hurlaient, on se serait cru dans un zoo; la chicha était de sortie, les liqueurs fortes de même… Pendant ce temps passait une espèce de musique de foire qui plaisait manifestement à pas mal de monde.

1H30

La terre tourne, mon estomac aussi... Après m'être allongé, je décide à mon tour d'aller faire une petite excursion nocturne en solo, victime d'une indigestion passagère assez étonnante.

2h30

Après avoir rechargé mes batteries, et perdu d'autres camarades je capte un pote avec lequel je bois à nouveau. La sélection naturelle avait opérée une fois de plus et il ne restait que les meilleurs.

4H00

Je me couche, le plafond tourne dangereusement. Certains décident de faire de la résistance. Moi je ferme les yeux, tranquillement installé sur un matelas de fortune. Je commence à comater quand je sens une personne s'allonger à côté de moi. Ellle m'embrasse. Je m'abandonne.

8h30

Mes yeux piquent salement, ma voix est celle d'un ours grizzly agonisant, et une barre de fer me frappe le dessus du crâne. J'entend vaguement une voix qui parle de la société capitaliste et de son influence dans le monde. Je suis au lycée, en cours de SES.

texte par Isodore Le Chat

cold cold night

2010-03-27T20:08:00.002+01:00

LA FEMME - Françoise from Irwin Barbé on Vimeo.

Download their EP for free on BEKO.

concerts

2010-03-09T18:36:00.008+01:00

The Drums at La Maroquinerie (Inrocks Indie Club), Paris

Turzi at La Flèche d'Or (French Made Rock party), Paris

dear diary : March

2010-03-07T18:45:00.009+01:00

dear diary : february in paris

2010-02-03T23:57:00.009+01:00

Simon at la défense

some weirdos

House party at Moon Kyu's

Marion & Sada Fann, aka the Fann sisters

Simon aka Jean-Paul Sarce with vodka and sutff

Playing in the night near Canal St Martin

Thieves Like Us - Never Known Love (free mp3 on their website)

upside down song

2010-02-01T18:41:00.008+01:00

I discovered Bathcrones on Platform, through one their Jookbox mixes. This song is perfect for party endings, when the sky is getting brighter. Kind of a druggy electro track that doesn't sound digitalized or synthesized at all.

Bathcrones - Vineyard Of The Sea

dear diary : last august in Paris

2010-01-19T18:48:00.008+01:00

Lucie taking a picture

Tarek in the subway (still sober)

Tarek lying in the middle of a street (needless to say he was wasted)

A girl disguised as an indian

resting on a sofa

Vintage clothes at Chinemachine

Some lame DJ at Social Club

tess roby

2010-01-16T19:13:00.009+01:00

Where have you been lately? Do you travel a lot?
 In the summer I went to England with my family. I spent a lot of time there growing up, so it’s quite a close place to my heart. I went to New York City in October, for the second time in 2009. I guess I do travel a lot, I love it.  

Do you watch a lot of movies? Are there any films that you really feel close to? 
Yeah, I suppose I do. I feel really close to movies I watched a lot when I was a child. “The Secret Garden” especially. Every scene in that movie could be a photograph, it’s all so beautiful. I cry every time I watch it.  

Is there a period of history in which you would have loved to live? 
Super hard question! The way Robert Frank photographed America in the 1950’s is breathtaking. Possibly there, or Paris in the 70’s.  

What kind of music do you listen to? Did you discover any bands that amazed you in 2009?
 There’s so much, really. 2009 was a great year for music. I really liked Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors.   

Do you feel that you belong to the indie photography scene that has developed mainly through flickr ?
 I started taking film photographs long before I joined flickr. I think it’s really cool that a whole group of photographers are getting decent exposure for their work, just from flickr. I don’t feel as if I belong to it, but it’s nice to think I’m a part of what’s going on.   

How old were you when you started to take photos ?
 I was really young actually. My parents bought me a 35mm Minolta point and shoot for Christmas when I was about three years old. I still use it.  

- Do you study photography?
 Yes! Hopefully I’ll continue to do so in university as well.  

What do you think of today's fashion photography ? Are there fashion photographers that you like ?
I don’t pay a lot of attention to fashion photography. I like what I see though, for the most part, if it’s well done!

Tess Roby on flickr / myspace

to the happy few

2010-01-09T17:23:00.011+01:00

This is an mp3 you won't find anywhere else : an exclusive cover of Joy Division's amazing song Disorder by french electro pop band Candy Clash.

Le mp3 exclusif du cover de la chanson Disorder par le groupe français electro pop Candy Clash.

Candy Clash - Disorder (Joy Division cover)

merci Jean-Paul Sarce

dear diary : winter vacation in barcelona

2010-01-07T19:02:00.013+01:00

Blind Man’s Colour – We’re Treehouse Kids!
Luna asleep because of cheap wine just outside the Nit Sa Club

Watching crossroads (yes, the movie with Britney Spears)

Asleep at el Fantastico Club

Lucie and Farielle drinking on a terrace

Sacha taking a confetti bath

Thieves Like Us interview

2009-12-28T20:22:00.011+01:00

Here's the interview of Andy from Thieves Like Us I did just a few days ago.

Where did you grow up ? How was your adolescence ? Did you go out a lot ?
My father was in the army. So we moved every couple of years until I got to high school. Then we moved to a suburb of Denver. The guys who made South Park went to my high school. I had bad social skills. My mother bought my clothes until I was 16 (she had not the best sense of style). I liked science fiction and femme fatales. I was bullied a lot. When I was old enough to go out I would go to clubs and look at women. I was too shy to speak with them. NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED. I buy my own clothes now.

What kind of music did you listen to as a teenager ?
When I was 12 my uncle was on the narcotics squad of a police force in the state of Georgia. They raided a house where they were manufacturing LSD. Everything in the house became pollice property including a pretty diverse collection of cassettes. He sent the cassettes to me as a gift. There was a lot of strange stuff in there like early Cure and Cocteau Twins and Kitaro. I guess I connected with it. Melancholic music made by individuals.

It seems that you travelled a lot in your life. Do you sometimes regret this homeless lifestyle ?
Mmmm. It has given me commitment issues probably. I never have to develop, I suppose. I can just grab my suitcase and move to a new city. But on the other hand, it is pretty fantastic having an awareness of so many cities and so many people. I have heard friends of mine say things like "I could never do that -- what would I do with all my things?". People seem to hoard objects. I think it gives them a false sense of stability.

What's the craziest thing that happened to you in Paris ?
Mmmm. I climbed over a wall into an upscale girl`s pension and made love to a beautiful young 18 year old. I would have for sure been arrested if I had been caught.

Why do you choose to make all your music videos from existing movies ?
Music videos are in general pretty bad. The format has been exhausted in the eighties and nineties. So now you have bands remaking cliche ideas with no budget. The result is dull videos that look like shit. I think we are gonna try to shoot our own videos for the next album, though. But who knows, they might look like shit too.

How did you end up performing Your Heart Feels on an episode of French TV
series Pigalle ?
The director was a fan, he phoned us up and Paris and asked us.

When did you realize you wanted to create music and not just be a DJ ? Was it when you met Pontus and Bjorn in Berlin ?
Actually, I don`t think I wanted to be a deejay. I only wanted to play in a band. But I just hated all the music they were playing in clubs in Berlin. I was travelling back and forth between Berlin and NYC in 2002 and 2003. I was working in a hip hop club in Manhattan. I had to pick up empty bottles and sweep up the dance floor. I was hearing a lot of r and b and hip hop that wasnt getting played in Europe (this was before music blogs and downloading). So I would just ask the deejay what songs he was playing. Then I would come to Berlin every few months and play the same thing. Alternative bands like the Rapture and Franz Ferdinand were really crossing over into the mainstream. Björn, whom I was deejaying with was also interested in producing music. We thought we could make something good. So we bought some equipment. On the seventh day we made Drugs In My Body. It took about six hours.

Have you ever met New Order ?
I met Peter Hook. He was a nice guy. But we are not such New Order fans. I met Vini Reilly from the Durutti Column. That was exciting!

Did you discover any band that amazed you in 2009 ?
Here We Go Magic. Nite Jewel. Christian Naujoks.

The pictures on your album covers are amazing, really different from the average fluo-graphic-design album covers of many electro pop artists. Where do these pictures come from ?
Ever wonder about electro covers? Why is it that music with no persona has a cover with no persona? I like all the Roxy Music covers. Femme Fatales in distress. I also get inspired by photos on Facebook or Myspace and try to recreate them adding some details to give the pics some meaning. If you look closely on the cover to Really Like To See You Again you will see an empty package of Xanax on the ground by her feet.

Thieves Like Us are everywhere :
Website
Myspace
Youtube

The Sound and The Fury

2009-12-21T13:58:00.007+01:00

I just started a new blog with my friend Luna, it will feature free mp3s, photographer interviews and lots of cool things ! It's called The Sound and the Fury, go check it out.

ps: But don't worry I will continue posting on this blog !

this will hurt your eyes

2009-12-20T21:12:00.008+01:00

Thieves Like Us on myspace

mödern

2009-12-20T20:26:00.005+01:00

Article by Goldfieldsfoxes

France+Photographie+1980+MÖDERNE+

Pierre René Worms

Emmanuel Bovet

Alain Dister

France+Photographie+1980+MÖDERNE+

Belle journée en perspective

Xmas present : 2009 favorites

2009-12-10T21:05:00.015+01:00

(to download the mp3s : right click + save as)

Electro :
Cold Cave - Youth and Lust
Fm Belfast - Underwear
Kap Bambino - Blonde Roses

Electro Pop :
Neon Indian - I Should Have Taken Acid With You
Small Black - Despicable Dogs
We Have Band - Honey Trap

Indie Rock :
Smiths Western - Be My Girl
Wild Beasts - Devil's Crayon
Best Coast - When I'm With You

Indie :
Girls - Lust For Life
The xx - Islands
Atlas Sound - Walkabout

Folk :
Mountain Man - Animal Tracks
The Ramshackle Union Band - Magdalene
Taken By Trees - My Boys

Noisy Pop :
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Teenager in Love
Manhattan Love Suicides - Suzy Jones
Reading Rainbow - Restless

Experimental :
No Age - Things I did When I was Dead
Grizzly Bear - Dory
Phoenix - Love Like a Sunset

Psychedelic :
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
Glasser - Glad
Sonic Boom - Go to Sleep

Tropical :
Friendly Fires - Kiss Of Life
Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
Desmond and the Tutus - Kiss You on the Cheek

Garage :
The Soft Pack - Parasites
Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl
Wavves - No Hope Kids

Remixes :
Peter Bjorn And John - The Chills (Thieves Like Us Remix)
Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love (The xx Remix)
The Notwist - Boneless (Grizzly Bear Remix)

++ Old Stuff :
The Field Mice - Emma's House
Black Tambourine - Black Car
Teenage Fanclub - Near To You

BUY ALL THESE SONGS ON ITUNES

I can copy

2009-12-03T21:09:00.008+01:00

Two Door Cinema Club are boring, and more importantly they copy a lot. In their latest single, I Can Talk, it's really obvious. Listen to the vocals, what pops into your mind ? Phoenix. Listen to the guitar during the chorus : Editors. And what about the guitar/voices from 1:58 to 2:21, doesn't it sounds just like Foals ?

Two Door Cinema Club sont ennuyeux, et surtout ils copient sans vergogne. Dans leur dernier single, I Can Talk c'est vraiment flagrant. Ecoutez la voix, qu'est-ce qui vous vient à l'esprit ? Phoenix. Ecoutez les guitares lyriques pendant le refrain, tiens donc ça ne ressemblerait pas à Editors ? Et la partie guitare nerveuse/voix de 1:58 à 2:21, ça ne sonne pas un peu comme du Foals ?

this is not a danceable track

2009-11-29T21:21:00.012+01:00

I don't know if Atlas Sound is just a side-project of Bradford Cox. Anyway I hope that Deerhunter are not splitting up. Atlas Sound is really good, especially Doctor (which is a cover of Five Discs). The way he sings/screams reminds of a song by Animal Collective…

Je ne sais pas si Atlas Sound est juste un projet parallèle de Bradford Cox. J'espère que oui et que Deerhunter ne sont pas séparés comme le dit la rumeur. En tout cas Atlas Sound c'est vraiment bien, moins planant que Deerhunter. La façon dont il chante en criant me rappelle une chanson, d'Animal Collective je crois.

Atlas Sound - Doctor [buy]

dear diary : concerts I've been to lately

2009-11-29T21:14:00.014+01:00

The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea [buy]
We Have Band - Honey Trap [buy] + Live @ Ecuries de Barojas (Video)
Lovvers - Ocd Go Go Girls [buy]

brooklyn

2009-11-25T12:32:00.007+01:00

I am in love with Small Black. I first heard them a few days ago on the radio as I was coming back from a judo training late at night. I was really tired, but when I heard Despicable Dogs I was astonished. Despicable Dogs and Lady In the Wire are my favorites. The melodies are really catchy and they have a really cool melancholic atmosphere. Another thing I like about Small Black is that the beats in their songs are really different from the average disco-like beats.

Je suis amoureux de Small Black. Je les ai entendu pour la premiere fois il y a quelques jours à la radio, en rentrant d'un entrainement de judo tard le soir. J'étais super fatigué, mais quand j'ai entendu Despicable Dogs, j'ai halluciné. Despicable Dogs et Lady In the Wire sont mes préférées. Les mélodies sont très accrocheuses, mais pourtant ça ne s'use pas vite. Et puis il y a cette atmosphère mélancolique qui est vraiment touchante. Une autre choses qui est agréable c'est que les rythmiques de leurs morceaux sont originales, différentes des beats discoïde qu'on entend beaucoup en ce moment.

Small Black - Despicable Dogs [buy]

cold wave

2009-11-16T21:41:00.011+01:00

I first discovered Cold Cave via a super-noisy demo called Sex Ads and I got scared. But after a few plays, you get the song, just like with Crystal Castles most violent tracks. Their most recent tracks are really easier to listen, but they still have this hypnotic power. Ps : the singer of Cold Cave is also the boss of Heartworm Press! I really want to see them live, but I guess I'm gonna have to wait quite a while before they come to France.

J'ai d'abord découvert Cold Cave par une démo super noisy appellée Sex Ads et j'ai flippé. Mais après plusieurs écoutes, on comprend la chanson, c'est le même processus qu'avec les tracks les plus violentes de Crystal Castles. Les nouvelles chansons de Cold Cave sont vraiment plus abordables, mais elles ont toujours ce pouvoir hypnotique. Ps: le chanteur du groupe est aussi le boss de Heartworm Press!

Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Cold Cave - Youth and Lust
Cold Cave - The Trees Grew Emotions And Died

[buy the whole album on iTunes, it's worth it]

cross cross

2009-11-03T21:16:00.007+01:00

I usually don't like Florence and the Machine, her voice really annoys me, but this is great, as usual with The xx.

D'habitude je suis pas fan de Florence and the Machine, sa voix m'exaspère mais là ça déchire (surtout grâce à au talent de The xx d'ailleurs)

Florence and the Machine - You've Got the Love (the xx remix) [buy]

being young and living at night in the 1950's

2009-10-12T15:33:00.004+02:00

supersonic,

2009-09-12T19:24:00.003+02:00

I saw Sonic Boom & Spectrum in april in Bordeaux (fr) where I made them a live video. Sonic Boom (peter kember), ex-Spacemen 3 is so intimidating. Right now he's co-producing MGMT's new album.

fantasme d'adolescente,

2009-09-12T10:28:00.005+02:00

I think I'm getting a bit bored of electro. Maybe it's just the autumn coming that changes my tastes. anyway, Teengirl Fantasy is the cure. it's cute, it's experimental, and their band name is just perfect.

L'électro style hype machine commence à me gaver un peu. Trop phénomène de mode, pas assez de vraies bonnes chansons. Ou peut-etre que c'est juste l'autumne qui arrive qui change mes goûts. en tout cas, Teengirl Fantasy c'est un peu le remède à tout ça. c'est mignon, c'est experimental et leur nom de groupe est juste parfait.

Teengirl Fantasy - now that's what I call volume two [buy]

you are too young to be through with love,

2009-09-12T10:17:00.007+02:00

I don't know how to describe Air France. I guess it's just a band that make you feel better. Just like living in an endless summer.

Je sais pas comment décrire Air France. J'imagine qu'on peut dire que c'est juste un groupe qui vous fait vous sentir mieux. Comme un été sans fin.

Ps : "still no Henrik in the studio, has he quit the band, who knows? no text messages, no phone calls. "

Air France - Gothenburg Belongs to Us (free mp3) [via RCRD LBL]

shiny boots of leather

2009-08-16T13:13:00.007+02:00

Venus In Furs clothes are designed by Luna Cedron and Camille Chauvé, two seventeen year old girls from Paris and Biarritz. Since last year, many cool kids have worn Venus In Furs tee-shirts : MGMT, Foals, Friendly Fires, Naive New Beaters, Adam Kesher, Glass Diamond, Connan Mockasin… This summer we gathered with all our friends in Biarritz (in the south-west of France) and we did this video. The music is by Teengirl Fantasy (thanks to Merok Records).
Teenage Takeover : Venus in Furs on Dazed Digital !
Venus in Furs is everywhere : facebook, myspace & blogspot (new!)

Les vêtements Venus In Furs sont crées par Luna Cedron et Camille Chauvé, deux adolescentes de dix-sept ans, qui viennent de Paris et Biarritz. Depuis l'an dernier des gens ultra-cools ont porté les tee-shirts Venus In Furs : MGMT, Foals, Friendly Fires, Naive New Beaters, Adam Kesher, Glass Diamond, Connan Mockasin… En juillet, on s'est retrouvé cet été à Biarritz avec tous nos amis pour faire cette video. La musique c'est Teengirl Fantasy (merci à Merok Records)
Venus in Furs est partout : facebook, myspace & blogspot (new!)
Teenage Takeover : Venus in Furs sur Dazed Digital !

french noise,

2009-08-16T12:51:00.008+02:00

rad + dark + french = Kap Bambino

Kap Bambino - neutral [yousendit]

passion pit sucks

2009-07-18T19:51:00.008+02:00

Am I the only one to think that Passion Pit's new album Manners is really lame compared to their Chunk of Change EP ? It used to be cute, but now it's just radio-friendly electro pop songs. The singer's voice is irritating and the lyrics are ridiculous. Plus, I heard that they totally suck during live gigs. Too bad.

Est-ce que je suis le seul à trouver que l'album de Passion Pit est vraiment pourri par rapport à leur EP Chunk Of Change ? Avant c'était mignon et frais, maintenant c'est du gros FM qui surfe sur la vague electro-pop. En plus on m'a dit qu'ils étaient absolument ridicules en live, le chanteur chante trop faux, la totale! Dommage.

underground disco life,

2009-07-11T17:05:00.005+02:00

Nice 8-bit electro song by soon-to-blow-up band from london, Glass Diamond. It's not as brutal as Crystal Castles songs, but it's more disturbing in a way. Their songs get in your head.

Track electro 8-bit intéressante par un petit groupe de londres dont on risque d'entendre beaucoup parler dans les mois à venir, Glass Diamond. Ce n'est pas aussi brutal que les chansons de Crystal Castles, mais elles sont plus troublantes dans un sens. Leurs trucs se faufilent dans ta tête.

Glass Diamond - Chase After Myself [buy on iTunes]

Update : this track has been remixed by electro duo You Love Her Cos She's Dead

weirdd,

2009-07-08T16:48:00.007+02:00

We Have Band - You Came Out (Official Music Video) from We Have Band on Vimeo.

dear diary : our summer in biarritz

2009-07-08T14:49:00.007+02:00

Philip drinking tea (and talking about big love)

Us kids drinking alcohol in a public place

Luna playing on the edge of a rooftop

Philip, Lyn and I sitting on rocks at the beach

Luna and Farielle in the plastic swimming pool

Lucie, Camille and I in the street

Some old man talking to us about Jesus, just before the Santigold + Le Corps mince de Françoise concert which was canceled

pictures by Luna Cedron

begin

2009-07-08T14:26:00.002+02:00

by richard peladine.

being young and living at night / être jeune et vivre la nuit

2009-07-08T13:06:00.002+02:00

Being Young And Living At Night is about youth, indie kids, rad pictures, weekenders, party girls, teenage lust and polar bears.

Être Jeune Et Vivre La Nuit ça parle de l'adolescence, d'indie kids, de jolies photos, de party girls, et d'ours polaires.

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by kata pult