Artist: Le Common Diamond

Tweet I went to France last year. My traveling companion hired a car and drove, I flicked through french radio stations trying to find some decent music. I could only find one station that was playing anything approaching 'contemporary' music and their playlist went something like this: U2, french guitar band that sounded like a bad U2; Oasis, french guitar band that sounded like a bad Oasis; Phil Collins, french equivalent of Phil Collins etc. etc. It was painful and demoralising. Should we [...]

Tweet From the city of Toulouse in France comes the duo Le Common Diamond . Thomas Juvé and Floran Remy make, well, without sounding so obvious, they make French pop music - and it's everything you could possibly want from such an association (the moodiness of Air, the sexuality of Sébastien Tellier). Yet some of the influences the band lists are MGMT and LCD Soundsystem , which also definitely translate and I think this cross-pollination of a beloved formula with their own influences [...]

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