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Nouvelle Vague

From France

Punk and new wave like it was never intended
From the same mindset that found Hayseed Dixie offering up breathless bluegrass versions of heavy rock classics, Nouvelle Vague also apply a seemingly disparate music style to another. But where the bluegrass boys just did it for one-dimensional laughs, this French collective create something beautiful, dipping fiercely cherished punk and new-wave classics into a sugar-sweet confection of lounge, bossa nova and easy listening. Thus New Order's Blue Monday is transformed into a cocktail-hour shuffle, while Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen In Love now struts with a highly unlikely Copacabana swagger. And you've got to admire Nouvelle Vague's ambition - they've even managed to neutralise The Dead Kennedys' Too Drunk To Fuck. For their latest record, last year's 3, they went one step further by inviting the originators to duet with them; the traditionally surly likes of Terry Hall and Ian McCulloch sportingly got in the spirit to turn those frowns upside down.
(Biography by Nige Tassell 2010)

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