Music Recommendation: Nouvelle Vague
I was introduced to the band Nouvelle Vague while visiting my friend Steve in England.
Nouvelle Vague is a French group focused solely on song covers, adding their own unique sounds to transform the original song into a completely different creation. “Their name is a play on words, meaning “new wave” in French. This refers simultaneously to “their “Frenchness” and “artiness” (the ’60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of ’60s Bossa nova-style arrangements (“bossa nova” being Portuguese for “new wave”).” (source)
I own their original album, named simply Nouvelle Vague, finding it to be consistently good, song after song. My personal favorites on this album include their cover of Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” and The Clash’s “Guns of Brixton”. The have released three albums, “Nouvelle Vague”, “Bande a Part” and “Late Night Tales: Nouvelle Vague” and are expected to release a fourth album in June 2009.
“Just Can’t Get Enough”
“Guns of Brixton”
What do you readers think?
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