Video: Les Provisoires - so much more

Des Jeunes Gens Modernes strives to pay due respect to some unheralded post-punk and new wave bands, no doubt hoping to cash in on the recurring popularity of all sounds '80s in the process. Released concurrently with an exhibit at Paris's agnes b. gallery in April 2008, the two disc compilation Des Jeunes Gens Modernes anthologizes a scene that has often been muted amid the underground rumblings of post-punk and new wave in the United Kingdom and the United States. Between the years of 1978 and 1983, the youth of France awarded the burgeoning new wave and post-punk [...]