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The infectious music of France's Prototypes is a skillful balance of large guitars and beautiful dance-floor beats that play homage to French new wave and the snotty dance rock of the 21st century. With sonic comparisons to Stereo Total, Elastica, and Les Rita Mitsouko, Prototypes hands you a cigarette, buys you a shot of absinthe, and leads you by the hand to the dance floor. Welcome to the party.
What's this: a mutant, synth-heavy, dance pop trio led by a hot new-wave chick who sings in French? Umm, it's a bit early for the electroclash revival, isn't it? Thankfully, it is way too early for that, and this P
Album Description
The infectious music of France's Prototypes is a skillful balance of large guitars and beautiful dance-floor beats that play homage to French new wave and the snotty dance rock of the 21st century. With sonic comparisons to Stereo Total, Elastica, and Les Rita Mitsouko, Prototypes hands you a cigarette, buys you a shot of absinthe, and leads you by the hand to the dance floor. Welcome to the party.
What's this: a mutant, synth-heavy, dance pop trio led by a hot new-wave chick who sings in French? Umm, it's a bit early for the electroclash revival, isn't it? Thankfully, it is way too early for that, and this Paris-based act's North American debut is unabashedly entertaining, closer to garage-rock from the future than Chicks on Speed. The songs on Prototypes, collected from their first two French releases, are fluffy but delicious pastries, heavily pumped up with keyboards that veer from '60s- to '80s-ish, and guitars that sound vaguely pop-punk on one song and folk-rock the next. Prototypes' members come from the respected acts Bubble Star and Bosco, and sassy, sexy singer Isabelle Le Doussal has earned her comparisons to Karen O and Blondie. This is exactly what CSS, Hot Chip, and Phoenix should sound like. It's Stereo Total meets a French Huggy Bear, and they're either recording their own soundtrack to Liquid Sky, or a tribute to Plastic Betrand. How do you say "hooray" in French? --Mike McGonigal
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Manufacturer: Minty Fresh
Release date: 6 June 2006
EAN: 0796627006524 UPC: 796627006524
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