Fixation Orale_音乐专辑
Fixation Orale
表演者: Les Sans Culottes
发行时间: 2004-05-18
唱片数: 1
出版者: Aeronaut Records
条形码: 0654807002028
专辑简介
On their third album (not counting the limited-edition live album Full Frontal Crudite), Brooklyn's les Sans Culottes still have the same strengths and weaknesses as on their first two, this time leaning a bit more towards the former than the latter. As always, their sound blends sweet ye-ye kitsch and garage rock brashness, and as always, April March was doing this sort of thing a lot better back in the mid-'90s. This time, however, the sound is more France Gall than Johnny Hallyday, down to a rocked-out cover of her Serge Gainsbourg-penned 1965 Eurovision Song Contest winner "Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son." Frothy pop tunes like "Allo Allo" are equally charming. As before, however, there's an annoying level of artifice here; in particular, an irritatingly smug brand of hipster cool permeates songs like "Menage a Toi" and "Telephone Douche," which are clearly trying to be epater-les-bourgeois eyebrow-raisers in the manner of Gainsbourg's most notorious songs, but they're just -- well, incredibly lame. It's like someone trying to mimic Dirty Mind-era Prince and getting the topic matter right but the funk all wrong. When they're being Gallic B-52's for the new millennium, Les Sans Culottes have the right idea, but when they're not, the entertainment level drops precipitously. ~ Stewart Mason
excerpt from the Los Angeles Weekly - -Libby Molyneaux
Les French - why are they so very tres enchante ?Je ne sais pas , but ici est un spirited sept -member ensemble from l'arrondisement known as Brooklyn (pronounced "Bruke-leen"), which we couldn't locate on a map but must be the Silver Lake of Paris, judging by the band's mismatched old clothes and smoky aura that's both alluring and repulsive. Named for the "ill-clad and ill-equipped volunteers of the French Revolutionary army," Les Sans Culottes (meaning "without underpants") take on the '60s French pop sound of Serge Gainsbourg and add arrangements a la the 5th Dimension to ridiculously groovy effect.
San Diego
The love-child of Serge Gainsbourg and Combustible Edison, Les Sans Culottes delivers a cheeky homage to '60s-era French pop replete with clever lyrics, ridiculous aliases and spot-on vocals and instrumentation that could've been lifted from the "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" soundtrack. The band's upcoming CD... was produced by local hitmaker Mike Andrews (of Gary Jules/"Donnie Darko"/"Mad World" fame).
Recording information: Elgonixlabs, Hollywood, CA.
曲目
Toxico (The Addict)
All? All? (Hello I Love You)
Gar?on Culotté (The Saucy Boy)
Tout Va Bien (I'm Alright)
Train à Grande Vitesse (HighSpeed Train)
Li Kantu (Esperanto Song)
Téléphone Douche (Telephone Shower)
Ménage à Toi (Mix It Up WithYou)
La Radio (When I Listen to the Radio)
Poupé de Cire (Wax Doll)
Deux Boules de Glace (Two Scoops of Ice Cream)
Voyage au Bout de l'Ennui (Journey to the End of the Night)
