.:: We are Enfant Terrible : electro, punk, rock with 8bit music ::.

What’s the real meaning of an “Acoustic version” ? The famous Television show MTV unplugged told us “With unplugged instruments” !

So here we are ! Playing unplugged with instruments & amps which can use batteries !

Le-Hiboo.com, a french video collective, came into our lovely attic and our lovely garden and made these 3 great videos.

Seagull

A song to you

Filthy Love

thanks to Rod, the director ! Great job dude !

we played :
*Casiotone MT65 (synth)
*Yamaha DD10 (electronic drums)
*Berhingher vintage Delay Pedal
*Guitar
*3 mini amps (which use in 1 hour more batteries you’ve ever used in your whole life)

Hello my name is “Explicit Pictures” !

Today, it’s our big day ! Our debut album “Explicit Pictures” is OUT in USA & CANADA & FRANCE. And we’re almost crying!

According to us, every song is like a picture: an attitude, a thought of a precise and defined moment. It’s like freezing a moment, an epoch that we can’t catch and is already escaped that we are trying to analyze with our teasing « enfant terrible » eyes.

It’s like plenty of moods compacted in an album. It goes from laugh to desperation, from airiness to deep riot, from indignation to resignation.

Explicit Pictures - WE ARE ENFANT TERRIBLE

We love the “purity” of this unlikely instrument -the Nintendo Gameboy, that it can be so smooth and sometimes so aggressive. We didn’t choose to love this sound, we’ve been raised with it. From 6-12 years old, the only music we listened to was video games music.

It was recorded and mixed by Thomas Fourny (the Guitarist) at his home studio in Lille (in his attic).

We sincerely hope you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as we had for making it !

Clotilde, Cyril and Thomas

As usual, you can illegally download it or buy it in digital, in CD or Vinyl in your favorite record stores. Up to you, guys !

Itunes USA : http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/explicit-pictures/id428654188?ls=1
Itunes FRANCE : http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/explicit-pictures/id427455427
Itunes CANADA : http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/explicit-pictures/id428654188

You want to see it live ?

april 8th : Molotow, Hamburg, GE
april 9th : Volxbad, Flensburg, GE
april 14th : Zum Teufel, Heidelberg, GE
april 15th : Sunny Red, München, GE
april 16th : Fatal, Landau, GE
april 23rd : Printemps de Bourges, FR
april 28th : Hoxton Pony,  London, UK
may 6th : le grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR (with our buddies from The Shoes)
may 11th : la boule Noire, Paris, FR (Parisian release Party)
may 14th : La Cartonnerie, Reims, FR

We might have been as depressed as a manager without a Blackberry if we have directly been back home after the SXSW…

But Halle-fucking-lujah, we had the great idea to spend more days in the best US city for crazyness : Los Angeles (The Angels, in English / Les Anges, en Français) !

So we made it like honorable american tourists do : Huge SUV, Disneyworld Hotel, “Grano.L.A”, Juicy Burgers and shooting stupid explicit pictures on Hollywood Bd !

We performed 3 gigs there and our new friend Jeremiah Alexis aka Urban Nomad just said it : ” great stage presence, great sound”. He also thinks Clo “is like a french Debi Harry for reals!”. Isn’t cool ?

OK. So what’s next ? Spreading our music in Europe and working on our new debut album release “Explicit Pictures” : on April 5th (US & FR) // April 28th (UK & GE)

Gros bisous (you deserve it)

Sun is sunnier, burgers are bigger, lol is loooooler: that’s the way it is in Texas and America. Sun + tattoos + weird drinks + burgers + good shows = SXSWicked!

We were one of the 1,900 bands to play at SXSW this year and we are so hugely proud! We performed at French Bureau Export, Swan Dive and Cheers Up Charlie. The shows were crowded and public gave us really good energy which made us forget the heat and tiredness. And with all the craziness, Cyril got crazy too (as usual) during our shows. Our label, Last Gang Records, had to send an “apology to the SXSW gear rental people for breaking a bass drum, drum seat, and a few other things throughout the week”.

In this kind of musical carnival freak show, we also met awesome artists! Here are a little bunch of performances we managed to remember (black holes are a part of a respectable SXSW trip).

Day 1: Our NYC Day

The Death set - our new electro Punk buddies from NYC, just signed on Ninja Tune. With 3 gigs per day and the best devotion ever for turning every gig into a riot, they deserve the medal of endurance!
Theophilus London - a great new comer in Classy Cheesy Sexy Old Fashioned (but not so old fashioned) Hip Hop! Even better with the hundred free beers (per person) of the Windish Agency Party!

Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap by The Death Set

Day 2: Our Rock’n'Roll Day

The Zoobomns - they are the most savage rock’n'roll band, affected by the recent events in their home country of Japan, playing as if it was the last time, exploding the walls with their wildness.
Queens Of The Stone Age, The Black Angels & Jay Mascis - gig of fame! Do we really have to explain how brilliant it was?

Day 3: Our Day Without An Adjective

!!! - with their contagious groovy insanity, everybody got dancing in the sunset. There are no words to say how perfect the bond between them (the band) and us (the public) was.
The Bewitched Hands - even if we’ve seen them at least a thousand times, our greatest French friends made it perfect, as usual!

Day 4: Our Cheers Up Charlie Stage Day

Too tired to walk around much, we stuck at the place we played. Luckily there was no need to move - the All Stars Music gig was there!

Dan Deacon - drove us crazy and became definitely our fashion geek icon.
Austra - blew up our mind with songs as beautiful as their make-up.
- washed our hearts and eyes

So what could we say more to close this chapter than « ANYTHING LESS THAN EXTRAORDINARY IS A WASTE OF MY TIME », Spin magazine or Fake DIY said it’s definitely THE theme song for SXSW FESTIVAL 2011.

We are so OK with that

Now let’s go to L.A. Bébé ….

LIVE : Monday, March ^21st, 12pm @The Satellite, 1717 Silverlake Blvd, LA, CA
LIVE : Wednesday, March ^23rd @Silver Lake, LA, CA
LIVE : Thursday, March ^24th @Standard Hotel, 10 pm LA downtown, CA

The Crystal Cat by Dan Deacon by Upitup Records

We’re going to USA !  We’re going to USA ! We’re going to USA !

Targets by order of priority :

#1 / Eating BBQ every single day !
#2 / Going to the swimming pool with Mark Lion !
#3 / Performing our new songs and introducing our debut album !

If you’re there : we’ll be glad to share a hotdog with you !