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Au Revoir Simone -Still Night, Still Light

May 9, 2009, 6:37am State Magazine
Au Revoir Simone - "Shadows" | Union Pool | 4.13.2009
Au Revoir Simone are the living, musical embodiment of a Sofia Coppolla movie. They are the soft focus, peachy toned, sun–streaked swirling sound of gentle, fresh melancholy. They are the gorgeous bittersweet buzz of the most spellbinding episode of unrequited love. They are the warmth and comfort of a friend's shoulder to rest on at the end of a night of crushing disappointment. They are a languid yawn in the long grass in imaginary small town America in the sweltering summer, the soundtrack for those who inhabit back-bedrooms wallowing in the dense thud of heartache and the sting of [...]
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