Pitchfork is calling a new album from French Touch duo, “imminent” as the group has just released their first new track in five years. As Stereogum notes, Justice, who last released an album with 2011’s Access All Arenas, signed a contract with France’s Because Music in April. Billboard is very enthusiastic about the new song, writing, […]
Continuing his famous “Lessons” video series, international music phenomenon by way of Belgium, Stromae surprised many a passerby in New York by performing “Papoutai” in various famous locations around the city, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Times Square, to in the subway. With many of his North American shows long sold-out, Stromae will be joined […]
Being released via France’s Because Music, Contrepoint is the debut album of Nicolas Godin, who appeared on seven albums with the legendary French band Air (who, as Pitchfork notes, have not split up). The album is inspired by the works of Bach and Glenn Gould. Says Godin: “I wanted to go back to the classical world, to […]
A founding father of the electro dance phenomenon known as French touch, Étienne de Crécy has unshelved his Super Discount project and will release the highly-collaborative album on January 19th via Ultra Music. At least a decade in the waiting, the album features contributions from Cults’ Madeline Follin, De La Soul’s Pos and Dave, Alex Gopher, Kilo Kish, and more. […]
Ghost Culture, an electro artist with a “dark and piercing” sound based out of London and signed to the French label Because, recently debuted a video on Vice’s Noisey blog. The video, for the track “Giudecca” comes off Ghost Culture’s self-titled debut, due for release in early January. Earlier in the year Pitchfork fawned over this […]
The latest track from Sebastien Tellier has been given the full Pitchfork treatment. See what those folks are saying and listen here.
Pitchfork.tv presents a conversation with Phoenix’s Thomas Mars and Laurent Brancowitz. Watch as they discuss the making of their album including how they implemented harpsichord and why the exclamation point in their album title became essential for them. “Once [the title] had the exclamation point, we fell in love with it,” Mars said. Bankrupt! is due April 23 in the […]
The latest album from husband-wife duo Amadou & Mariam is to be released on April 10th, 2012 in the United States via Because Music and Nonesuch Records. The two known as “the couple from Mali” first met one another at Mali’s Institute for the Blind before creating music together. Folila is their first album since […]
