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BORNBAD 137EP
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After the release of last year's Ferarock most played When Will The Flies In Deauville Drop (BORNBAD 111CD/LP, 2019), Le Villejuif Underground decided to do absolutely nothing for a year, and took an early retirement. A 20-date tour of Europe was cancelled the day before! Their separation was announced on TV5 Monde and to one confused journalist from Liberation. A few months later, a song for a world-renowned fashion label wasn't completed in time for the catwalk and instead members got sloppy drunk, and fought in the streets of Paris whilst their singer was lost somewhere in the Sahara Desert with passport issues. Opportunities lost! Bridges burnt! All dreams destroyed! Many thought they would never come back, others didn't even notice, but whether you like it or not Le Villejuif Underground are back, with a two-song single out on the only home that will have them, Born Bad Records. Listeners: This is Villejuif in surround sound high definition! "Ghost Of The Water" is a hallucination of alcoholism, from different shaky view points and sounds like a sci-fi space/opera Lee Hazlewood western if soundtracked by a collaboration between The UV Race/The Strokes 2001: Space Odyssey. "Les Huitres a Cancale", is a Kenneth Koch-like animal call to stalkers, and strangers out there on the loose in the "moi aussi" generation and rolls like an ageing Gainsbourg slow dancing on codeine, a druggy ballad for the tranquilized. And just when you thought the world of music had ended, Le Villejuif Underground is back from retirement! "The more medicated, The more dedicated."
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BORNBAD 111CD
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A bass player looking like the main character of a surf movie shot in Chernobyl. A guitar player who'll take French rap or Thaï music over the Stooges, anytime. A keyboard player invited at rehearsal by mistake who got the job because he fell asleep on his synth. An Australian poet-singer lost in France with no papers, sleeping in a cabin in the backyard of the Villejuif house where the whole band lives, sets up shows and records the most vital, exciting and enthralling records heard in France for a long, long time. PRs and managers would kill for such a story -- this one is 100% accurate and happened just like any great story: by chance. Just like the music of Le Villejuif Underground, the result of happy accidents and unholy alliances, something that was never meant to be but became an astonishing fandango of sorts. Think Fat White Family covering Oingo Boingo with Beat Happening's gear. Think Beck's One Foot In The Grave (1994) remixed by Daniel Johnston and Brian Wilson. Think Ausmuteants, the Spits, the Feeling Of Love, or A Frames when they really nailed it. Actually, you shouldn't think about any of this cause whatever you do, you'll still be far from reality. Way too far. Especially now with the release of When Will The Flies In Deauville Drop?, their second album and the first one on Born Bad Records. 11 tracks in a bit less than 40 minutes. 11 clumsy love letters to heavy backpacks, haunted castles, sleepy Parisian districts, and tours in China -- which happened by total chance, thanks to some girl found asleep on their couch on New Year's Eve. 11 reasons to think there's a way out of 2019 -- already. Your stormy love story with Le Villejuif Underground starts here. Be sure to enjoy it. To the max. CD version comes as a digipack.
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BORNBAD 111LP
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LP version. Includes download code. A bass player looking like the main character of a surf movie shot in Chernobyl. A guitar player who'll take French rap or Thaï music over the Stooges, anytime. A keyboard player invited at rehearsal by mistake who got the job because he fell asleep on his synth. An Australian poet-singer lost in France with no papers, sleeping in a cabin in the backyard of the Villejuif house where the whole band lives, sets up shows and records the most vital, exciting and enthralling records heard in France for a long, long time. PRs and managers would kill for such a story -- this one is 100% accurate and happened just like any great story: by chance. Just like the music of Le Villejuif Underground, the result of happy accidents and unholy alliances, something that was never meant to be but became an astonishing fandango of sorts. Think Fat White Family covering Oingo Boingo with Beat Happening's gear. Think Beck's One Foot In The Grave (1994) remixed by Daniel Johnston and Brian Wilson. Think Ausmuteants, the Spits, the Feeling Of Love, or A Frames when they really nailed it. Actually, you shouldn't think about any of this cause whatever you do, you'll still be far from reality. Way too far. Especially now with the release of When Will The Flies In Deauville Drop?, their second album and the first one on Born Bad Records. 11 tracks in a bit less than 40 minutes. 11 clumsy love letters to heavy backpacks, haunted castles, sleepy Parisian districts, and tours in China -- which happened by total chance, thanks to some girl found asleep on their couch on New Year's Eve. 11 reasons to think there's a way out of 2019 -- already. Your stormy love story with Le Villejuif Underground starts here. Be sure to enjoy it. To the max.
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BORNBAD 091EP
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Nathan Roche is a poet and musician from Townsville, Australia, whose music brings to mind Lou Reed, Kevin Ayers, and early Brian Eno. Following stints in numerous Australian bands and three solo albums released from 2013-2015 (two of them on his own label and publishing imprint Glenlivet-A-Gogh), Roche formed Le Villejuif Underground with local musicians in Villejuif, France, where he is based at the time of this release. The band has played with the likes of The Rebel, Ausmuteants, Bazooka, Buck Biloxi and the Fucks, Juan Wauters, and Sea Pinks, and has also toured China.
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SDZ 020LP
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Self-titled debut album by Parisian band Le Villejuif Underground led by Australian expat Nathan Roche (previously in bands like Marf Loth and Camperdown & Out). Mature, ramshackle rock and roll and garage pop with sharp lyrics. RIYL: The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Kevin Ayers.
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