It’s summer and who doesn’t enjoy a bit of a French way of life on a chic boardwalk listening to some live music? Cabourg Mon Amour is just where you want to be then. The small town of Cabourg is a mere two hour train ride from Paris, nestled on the Normandy coast, right by the English Channel. Marcel Proust’s biographer famously wrote about Cabourg:
(…) modern Cabourg began in 1853 with the arrival of two Paris financiers in search of a new site for a luxurious watering-place. (…) By the 1880s an unreal city of villas and hotels had arisen, in a semicircle whose diameter was the seafront, whose centre was the Grand Hotel, and whose radii were traced by a fan-work of avenues shaded with limes and Normandy poplars.
It is around that Grand Hotel, right on the sandy Channel beach, where the lovely festival of Cabourg Mon Amour will take place on three nights from 28-30 July. They set up two stages and selected a small and almost exclusively French line-up that covers a nice range of pop and indie to the more electronic and dance’y. Each day will see no more than a good handful of bands playing. Major names include Cigarettes After Sex, Lescop, Paradis, Parcels, Polo & Pan, and more.
One name marked down on Team Poule’s calendars is Agar Agar. The French duo plays a very enjoyable 80s-influenced synth pop, and accumulated a healthy fan base down in France already. Attached below is their new single You’re High, out on Cracki Records. They will play the Scène de la Plage stage on Saturday, 29th. Team Poule says, gonna be a smooth cruise!
As dreamy as they come this one, from Sweden of course. Wy are a husband and wife duo and recently featured in our Bright Clouds series. Here now comes a new one out of their ‘sad pop’ repertoire, complete with floating synthesizers, melancholic guitars and a fine dose of reverb. Furthermore, What Would I Ever Do is about letting go of trying to be something that you are not. Their debut album Okay is due to be released in October this year on Hybris. Team Poule says, sign me up for that ride!
Main man Gundelach from Oslo has been spreading delight with his debut from last year, fusing a refreshing melange of 80s reverb, 90s glam and a very 2000s pop. Here now, in time for the release of his new single Garden, comes Gundelach in a segment called photo-interview. Because who really actually enjoys readying when you can have a few photos and gifs these days. And even in Ancient Rome they used to say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So, without further ado, here is Gundelach: [continue reading…]
Indie hamsters and Energizer bunnies FEWS have put forth a new track last week. Metal of course is a cover of Gary Numan’s epic 1979 new wave’y original and comes as a grinding, reverb-laden and perfectly harmonic piece of music. A first glimpse at their new stuff to follow up last years epic debut LP Means. FEWS have just been confirmed to support the mighty Pixies on a range of dates, get behind that. Team Poule says, banging.
Here we go for the month of July! A fine selection of 15 new and rising tracks in our little Bright Clouds series. Find the other ones here, they’re all up on Soundcloud and Spotify. So, July is probably a month for the outdoorsy activities and one in desperate need of a soundtrack setting the mood, setting the scene. Here then come 15 contenders and 15 names for you to tangent off from. The list goes like this – and is out now on Soundcloud and Spotify. [continue reading…]
Danish super group Luster is ready to take over the European summer and released this balearic hot ball of pop last week. You’ve Got The Heat has to be an hommage to the lush driver songs of the early 90s, windows down and let the left wheel touch the middle line. Got a very modern drum machine twist too though, perfect summer jam. Team Poule says, smooth as silk.
Get the b-side on Spotify, too.
