10”
LP of super cool modernist lounge music! The soundtrack to the best
cult movie that never got made!
Best band name of the
year must surely go to France's Le SuperHomard. They take their name
from a club featured in '60s French crime caper flick Let's Not
Get Angry. OK, so in English, The Great Lobster might lose some
of it's cool but the music the band make is as groovy and
sophisticated as you'd expect.
Le SuperHomard is the
brainchild of Christophe Vaillant, formerly of Pony Taylor, and
started as a solo project before the addition of his brother Olivier
on drums and friend Pandora Burgess who sings lead vocal on four of
the tracks. Together they've swapped Pony Taylor's garage rock for a
more optimistic and breezy style of electronic pop.
Musically Le SupeHomard
are part retrogressive cool and part forward looking indie
nonchalance; stylish, intelligent and the epitome of Gallic élan.
There's a lot packed in to the album's eight tracks; from the
propulsive bass and drum clatter of 'Intro' through the gentle
electronic dreaminess of 'MapleKey' and lo-fi folktronica on
'Bituminized', it all fits together. Taken as a whole the album has a
definite widescreen cinematic vibe and comes across as the soundtrack
to the best cult movie that never got made.
MapleKey is out
now in the UK on Mega Dodo Records on CD or limited edition 10”
white vinyl.
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