Author: Paris365
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Thick, heavy beats, smooth and soulful vocals, slick bass guitar grooves… It’s R&B heaven, really. Yet it also has something of an electro-pop vibe to it and it’s precisely the way it refuses to conform to genre distinctions that makes it so brilliant.
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Occasionally, since starting Love is Pop a year and a half ago, I will go into a panic mode when my favorite artists are releasing new albums because, one, I feel compelled to review them and, two, I dread the idea of possibly having to give one of my favorites a bad review. I experienced…
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We’ve been fascinated by Petite Meller ever since she left a link to her “Backpack” video on our Facebook page last September. If you watched the video when we posted it, then chances are you remember it. It was the gorgeous homage to vintage French cinema shot on the French Riviera. Meller herself describes it…
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Émilie Simon began her career with a self-titled release in 2003. I happened upon it by chance when I was looking for a few new CDs to buy on Amazon France, as I had been a French music junkie since 1997 or so. I had no idea what she was going to sound like, but…
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Lissie’s new covers EP was self-produced by Lissie and her band in their home of Ojai, CA. “We were approached to cover “Mother” by Danzig which led to a fun week in the studio that inspired us to lay down some other covers we had either been playing live already or had been wanting to…
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We’re totally in love with this infectious number at the Love is Pop office this week. They’re like a cross between Bloc Party and Arctic Monkeys with a dash of Kaiser Chiefs thrown in for good measure. Very good stuff indeed. We love the jangly guitars, fancy percussion and the inviting vocals.
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Estereotypo sounds like quite the mouthful of a band name until you break it down, then it’s easy. See: E-stereo-typo. We’re not sure how they pronounce it, but we’ve been pronouncing it the way it sounds when broken down like that. In any case, these talented cats hail from Spain and their upbeat, super-synthy blend…
