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Joyeux to the world. Something airborne has reached electricpoeland by way of Paris. I'd like to say it's good tidings but rather it is the virus known as guilty pleasure and it has spread into the part of my brain that causes holiday cheer. Stage 1 (red button) will possibly get past your immune system but Stage 2 (old player) should make it clear why this thing is all guilt.
It's technopop with a chipped tooth. It's electroclash but loud. Yes, it's froguerock on bleedin' Christmas.
What seals my deal with this album is it wraps spunk in a nonchalance that tempers the tendency to overdo. It bites, claws, kicks without a care for all that popcorn action. You might hear a mutation of Discount with Ladytron, Salad with Information Society, Devo with Faust, if you're still listening at all. If you are not, well, I'm not sorry for my synths but can we be friends again? (Friends Again, get it? And no, I didn't like them.)
Prototypes = Stéphane Bodin and François Marché a.k.a. the French electronic duo Bosco (have they officially disbanded?) + Isabelle Le Doussal a.k.a. Bubble Star (about whom I know nothing but she sounds like fun). Synthetique was released through Minty Fresh this year. I think it's sick and I can't stop listening to it.
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guilt or gilt? it will be interesting to slip #1 into a yuletide mix and see if the vocals overcome the melody. my bet is no one will notice. on the "minimal" side, should we feel guilty just because we have a second doughnut? Stereo Total lives on...
This offering of yours suits my polyglotic mood quite nicely. There's no guilt in music because you can enjoy it in public, whenever and wherever.
Ain't nothing in guilty about any of the tracks! Go to Hell Mademoiselle and Minimal Animal are funny and tongue in cheek more than anything else. Plus, if someone makes you feel bad for fancying this, you can just quote the first song title to them, and be done with it :)
At least I could say that I'm listening to this to brush up on my French.
She should ditch those dudes..dead weight.
Man, they really make you wait for the beat on the first one, and then it never comes! I like the guitar solo.
Minimal Animal is my cut here with it's "White Horse" cop..
Scott - i plead innocent on having that second doughnut but i'll take a second croissant. hey, you really should put up that Stereo Total you know where.
Michael - what i'm really guilty of is playing it nonstop and bobbing my head when the dancey tunes come up but, then again, i haven't much shame.
Anna - that's it, it's tongue in cheek. i fancy the first song title myself and like it when she adds "please". the joy of bitching with a smile.
Dale - i do not understand what she's singing but i take it nothing vile since you / Michael / Anna are not filing any complaint reports.
Cody - White Horse! oh man i way just saying to Colin/Flux that '80s synth pop is suddenly hot again this year. she's got a solo career as Bubble Star so there's that.
I have no idea what she's singing either; I'm nowhere near that fluent, and probably wouldn't recognize French profanity at that speed anyway.
I salute both items, and distance myself from my buddy Cody's beat criteria. A "tres bon!" to the keyboardist for his inventiveness on "Minimal Animal." I'll also take back everything I just said and pretend to disapprove of your questionable musical preferences here only if your resulting guilt adds to your pleasure.
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haha, a big LIKE here! This cheesy french electro is a perfect accompaniment to my monday morning.
Not my thing at all, but the phenominal title made me give it a listen :-)
"what i'm really guilty of is playing it nonstop and bobbing my head" -- You're not the only one. See below
Dale - "French profanity" reminds me of a joke hereabouts that Vietnamese sounds like French but cursing all the time.
Spike - i hear you on the inventiveness of the keyboardist. pretending to disapprove tells me you have a full understanding of guilty pleasures.
Callisto - goodie then. hope you had a blast in the underworld.
Aug - the French are sooo French. and i am being cheesemasy. ;d
GR - "phenominal", hahah, nice one. hope it wasn't an unbearable listen.
Michael - LOL. John Allen Brown, whoever he is, ought to make his parents far guiltier about that video someday.
No way, Poe! This is really cool. Seriously.
Did you ever see a bike with speakers hooked up?
This would be the perfect song to play for the public. Simple enough to understand not wearing headphones.
I'm too old. I can't understand the lyrics. Oh wait...
Minimal Animal? She sounds like a right snotty little mare, that's for sure. Really gets going after 1:50, don't it?
In my head I'm doin this:
lak - that bicycle is hellacool! i've seen my share of bicycles with speakers (and roving mini-vans from where people make public announcements on either speakers or megaphones), all of which we have a lot of in these parts, but boy that speaker is humongous.
Colin - ahahah, me, too! more like robotic head-bobbing, as i was saying to Michael, and not just in my head but to the horror of my poor flabbergasted bedroom.