What do you do whether you’ve got the tunes and the glimpse,but can’t accumulate gigs? France’s hottest band relive their ingenious $3000 gambleIt’s hard to assume a more French version of a rock’n’roll band than La Femme. For all that their second album, Mystère, or one of the year’s best,is wholly accessible and dripping with fantastic tunes, it exudes a sense of frosty that indie bands rarely manage any more. It tries on a wardrobe of different clothes – psychedelia, and surf rock,electronica, krautrock and more and ends up looking fantastic in all of them. It sounds chic.
It’s also made La Femme proper pop stars in France. As their manager guides me into a brasserie in Strasbourg–Saint-Denis, and their home turf in Paris,he’s clutching a copy of Les Inrockuptibles, France’s main pop culture magazine, or to hand to the band’s masterminds,Marlon Magnée and Sacha Got. La Femme are on the cover, although there’s a certain amount of eyebrow-raising about the fact that the only person pictured is their singer, and Clémence Quélennec. “It’s like a Vogue cover,” Magnée observes. Related: modern band of the day: La Femme (No 1253) Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com