DEUX FILLES
DOUBLE HAPPINESS
LP

26,50

SORTIE LE 26.08.22 en attente de date de report

Le label Our Swimmer réédite le premier album de l’obscur premier projet expérimental des fondateurs The The.

Deux Filles n’étaient pas, en fait, deux filles malgré ce que suggèrent le nom du groupe et son canular élaboré d’une trame de fond. Non, ce n’étaient pas Gemini Forque et Claudine Coule, des Françaises qui se sont rencontrées adolescentes dans des circonstances tragiques et sont devenues rapidement amies, enregistrant deux albums ensemble avant de disparaître dans l’éther.

En réalité, Deux Filles était Simon Fisher Turner et Colin Lloyd Tucker, un duo britannique qui a d’abord travaillé ensemble dans une première incarnation de The The.

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BIO :

Deux Filles was not, in fact, two girls despite what the group name and its elaborate hoax of a backstory suggest. No, they were not Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule, French women who met as teenagers under tragic circumstances and became fast friends, recording two albums together before disappearing into the ether. In reality, Deux Filles was Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, a UK duo who first worked together in an early incarnation of The The.

Straddling the line between experimental and pop, Turner was an actor and teen singing star who later composed soundtracks for the iconic queer filmmaker Derek Jarman while Tucker’s career began as an engineer for the famed UK library music studio, De Wolfe, before forming experimental wave group The Gadgets. In Deux Filles, the duo found an outlet for their least commercial tendencies, combining lo-fi proto-dream-pop instrumentals with samples, tape experiments, ambient textures, and drum machines. Even in the vibrant, seemingly endless well of UK DIY, Deux Filles stand out.

Silence & Wisdom – the duo’s 1982 debut – is a series of musical vignettes, like the score of an unrealized arthouse film. Blending processed guitars, sheets of synthesizers, echoey pianos, and washed-out vocal snippets to surprisingly varied effect, the album is recommended for fans of Durutti Column and Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.

« Like an early French film soundtrack with melodramatic overtones, the sound is jagged and disjointed but never harsh. Lilting guitars and ample use of echo smack of Vini Reilly, relying on the hypnotic qualities of the sound rather than abrasive noise » (Sounds, 03/1983)

« Sulty atmospheres, dreamy layers of music » (Uncut, 02/2013)

« Drifting and wistful, they’re a pair of lost ambient gems dragged back into the limelight. With excellent sleevenotes and period photos, this reissue should be snapped up. 4 stars » (Record Collector, 02/2013)

« With numerous friends, including versatile Matt Johnson and Annie Hogan, the girls have built an insular solitude which breathes calm and order. Like an early French film soundtrack with melodramatic overtones, the sound is jagged and disjointed but never harsh. Lilting guitars and ample use of echo smack of Vini Reilly, relying on the hypnotic qualities of the sound rather than abrasive noise » (Sounds, 03/1983)

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