La Femme

Few bands have invigorated French pop like La Femme over the last decade, and in 2021, they’re coming to make all of our lives better.

Paradigmes, their much-awaited third album, offers a shift in how we see the world, a kaleidoscopic vortex to a different, more vibrant dimension. After Psycho Tropical Berlin in 2013 and Myst re in 2016 which both reached Gold status in France and got them to play hundreds of shows around the world, the Paris-based, Biarritz band continue to dazzle listeners with their new record. Within this album of beautifully-curated electropop you will hear everything from coldwave to y y, Kraftwerk to the Velvet Underground, all distilled and sequenced and psychedelicized so that it sounds uniquely La Femme. The title track is a brassy blast of sizzling electro that imbues the spirit of flappers and philosophers, cabaret and art deco and Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis, all underpinned with a touch of lyrical melancholy. Paradigmes is an album that lives in the moment, even if that moment is a challenge right now. Its fantastical voyages will undoubtedly provide an escape into a world beyond our own.

Polly says “Another superb album to add to the list for La Femme. Super seductive genre-bending French Electro Pop with the odd curveball thrown into the mix. Those Parisian bass lines will always do it for me. I’ll be pouringmyself a big glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to this over the Easter Weekend.”