La Femme – Psycho Tropical Berlin (2LPs)

First album of French band La Femme released in 2013 with which they won Best New Band of the year at the French Music Awards and god certified gold. It marked also the beginning of their international recognition, confirmed since with their 2nd album Mystere in 2016 and their brand new album Paradigmes today. Includes the hits Sur La Planche, It’s Time to Wake Up and Antitaxi! La Femmes’s debut LP, is a mix of surf revival, updated cold wave (in a similar vein to countryman Lescop), 1960s yeye and psychedelia. “Psycho Tropical Berlin: is apparently also their self-penned genre, they have also said “strange wave, new Motown, witch wave, silly mental wave”… whatever, aach term makes for a pillar to describe their music. Psycho Tropical Berlin is the story of a couple who slipped into chaos and survives by watching each other. Le Danger est partout – Peril is all around – as written in the booklet. Rock and pop, rococo bauhaus, fed from multiples influences (Krafwerk, Elli & Jacno). La Femme just want to please you. Generous and welcoming, she stretches you her white hand in the dark, if you grasp it, it could be the shiver of your life.