A while back, Even*Cleveland posted this beautifully edited clip from Godard’s Bande à part combined with Nouvelle Vague's cover of Dance with Me. And I became a woman obsessed.
This band takes inspiration from rarely covered songs and creates a muse for each track, such as a young Brazilian girl singing Love Will Tear Us Apart on a Rio beach in the '60s or a blind girl singing Fade To Grey in the corridors of the Parisian Metro, alone with her accordion and ignored by everyone. With such depictive imagery, it's no surprise they can turn an early '80s post-punk number into a calypso-themed Caribbean sound from the 1950s. I have [quite belatedly] joined the Nouvelle Vague bandwagon and been playing favorites to their albums ever since.
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Yay! I am so glad you listened to more from them!
I do love that version of Love Will Tear Us Apart.
I've also been slow to join the bandwagon, but am loving it enough now to make up for lost time!
oh - i love it too.
so fun, huh!?
Ooh yes, aren't they fantastic?! They are forever entwined with Coco Rosie, Stereo Total, and Keren Ann for me, as I discovered them all around the same time. :) You should check all of them out, if you are unfamiliar with them!
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