Télépopmusik
Two albums and one Mitsubishi commerical strong, featuring the vocal stylings of such artists as Angela McCluskey (a direct descendant of Billie Holiday (yes, the)), Télépopmusik offers a fresh, groovy, jazzy, electronic sound received worldwide with favorable reviews. The French group’s core membership consists of three musicians: Fabrice Dumont, Stephan Haeri, and Christophe Hetier, who met in 1997 after playing separately.
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Their first CD, Genetic World, generated a lot of attention for the leading track, “Breathe”, and “Love Can Damage Your Health”.
AUDIO/ VIDEO [Télépopmusik - “Breathe”]
VIDEO [Télépopmusik - “Love Can Damage Your Health”]
BUY/PREVIEW [Genetic World] (iTunes)
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Angel Milk, their latest and very appropriately-named album, has a lot of good songs – my only criticism would be how it seems to feather out a bit in the middle. I like “Don’t Look Back”, “Stop Running Away”, “Love’s Amighty”, and “Tuesday” in particular.
AUDIO[Télépopmusik - “Don’t Look Back”]
AUDIO[Télépopmusik - “Stop Running Away”]
VIDEO [Télépopmusik - “Into Everything”]
BUY/PREVIEW [Angel Milk] (iTunes)
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Update: Michael F. Gill from Stylus Magazine kindly sent me a back issue of his Groovin’ With The Millimeters podcast, featuring a very popular remix of “Into Everything” by The MFA. Groovin’ is actually more of a show, inasmuch as it appears regularly with other shows on Stylus’s daily music podcast, Stycast. If you’re the fast-forwarding type, “Into Everything” is at 14:38.
AUDIO[Stycast #013: Groovin’ With The Millimeters 002] LINK [tracklist] LINK / SUBSCRIBE [The Stycast] LINK / SUBSCRIBE [Groovin’ With The Millimeters]