DC's Le Loup recently stopped by the Daytrotter studios to flex their musical muscles a bit. The four song set included three unreleased tracks that have them drifting towards simpler acoustic arrangements. Relying on plucked guitars, banjos, a slew of rhythms, and vocal harmonies Le Loup brings like few bands can. "Go East" was a stand out track for me - church choral elements with a mou...
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Le Loup, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, (Hardly Art) seven out of ten starsThere’s an eerie beauty thread throughout Le Loup’s debut album, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly; it thrives in the unexpected meshing of folk twang and electronic twiddling, in arrangements as vast as a desert sky, in rushes of ghos
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I like traditional Christmas songs but sometimes its nice to mix it up a bit... to bring in some new energy for your Holiday Cheer. Here's a great compiliatoin of songs and artists on this album that Here's the set list:1. Au Revoir Simone - Christmastime Is Here2. Le Loup - Shenandoah3. Figurine - The Holidays Behind Us4. Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas (Piano Mix)5. Arthur & Yu - My White El...
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DC’s Le Loup started making waves with the release of the Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations’ Millennium General Assembly which crippled bloggers with it’s lengthy title but healed them with the lovely indie rock goodness sounding much like a mash of Polyphonic Spree, Arcade Fire, and MGMT. Well they’re back again with [...]
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AON Session: Le Loup -I can't wait to see them Saturday night at Black Cat here in DC
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So you thought that Le Loup was a large band composed of nice musicians from DC who play otherworldly music that's good for driving at night? Think again! According to a recent Associated Press report, the band's true intentions have been revealed, despite the group's French-translated trickery. Apparently they are all actually wolves and, in a Gwar-like fashion, will be using their upcoming to...
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Le Loup leaves the bedroom for some group interplay and goes tribal on its celebratory sophomore LP.The banjo has a very distinct sound. Much like the sitar or the bagpipes, it instantly conjures up images of a particular place: sitar = India, bagpipes = Scotland, and banjo = rural South. I mean, who hasn’t made a “dueling banjos” joke/reference before? However, over the last decade or so, t
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Upon first hearing “Beach Town”, the first officially available track off Le Loup’s sophomore release Family, I noted how it was surprisingly reminiscent of recent Papercuts. I failed to mention that the two artists shared a stage at CMJ 2007, where I saw each lay down a phenomenal set. Well, listening to Family [...]
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mp3s:Le Loup – Beach TownLe Loup – GrowLe Loup is a five-piece synth/folk hybrid collective from Maryland. Their latest, Family, is out Sept. 22nd via Hardly Art Records. It’s a gem, and you can pick it up here.
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ME // From: Washington, DC. // Current Favorite: Le Loup (Website // MySpace)If you’re not...
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You’ve probably already figured out that we were wicked busy this weekend and that business prevented us from hitting you with deep and compelling content today. (Kevin was the homecoming advisor; I was plowing through the relevant literature on evidence-based practices; Justin is the most interesting man in the world (which means he’s always busy); [...]
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(Editor’s note: Today’s post is explicitly intended for Maryland’s best quasi-experimental indie folk quintet, Le Loup. I felt I owed them an explanation for my failure to review their upcoming sophomore album, out September 22 on Hardly Art. If you’re not in Le Loup, you’re more than welcome to read the following letter to the [...]
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