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Louise Attaque

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accoustic + Violins.....Levellers-ish....even if you don't understand french, you'll enjoy the tempo and use of melody with a different approach to song. I would recommend this as a present to a dear friend. Something new and refreshing.

An extraordinarily good album. Un peu trop cher at the prices they're selling it at here, but definitely still well worth running down- might be found cheaper thru Amazon's French or Canadian site. I bought my copy in Quebec a few years back, and I gotta say that it's been a great companion.

These guys have a wonderfully distinctive sound- Arnaud Samuel's manic buzz saw folk-punk fiddle drives everything, and Gaëtan Roussel's voice has that sharp languorously jaded quality to that is reminiscent of all the best punk singers, but is finally unlike anyone else's.

The album hasn't a bad song on it, but my two favorites are the first song "Amours" - a nice sardonic poem on love, set to music - and a later song "Fatigante," which I think may be one of my top twenty fav songs of all time (though admittedly there are a lot of songs crowding that list..)

It's a great little love song, one that reminds of several girls of my acquaintance, and so's always good for a grin. It goes like this (imagine a rollicking, fraying fiddle accompanying these lyrics):

Quand elle danse, belle, franche une reine, elle est pour moi, tout ça pour moi, un ange qui tourne autour de moi, et pourtant elle dit toujours bonjour comme ça, elle dit toujours au revoir comme ça, elle dit toujours j'veux ça ça ça, elle est fatigante, fatigante, intelligente, négligente, excitante, désespérante, attirante, pas très galante, souriante.. etc. etc. etc. [a long staccato litany of adjectives follows..]

As I say, fun stuff, good road tune, cheer you up on a grey day tune, remember your favorite girlfriend tune, you're a French teacher stuck for a good adjunct to a lesson on adjectives tune.. you know, just an all round great tune. Check it out.

Final word: this band is great, the only negative thing I can say about them is that there's not a lot of variety between their songs- they tend to meld a bit together. I don't consider this to be fatal, though, because I love their sound so much.

Samuel & Roussel have recently formed another group called Tarmac, whose music has yet to find it's way into my collection. A deficiency soon to be rectified.

In sum, a worthy purchase, one you will not likely regret.

Arguably one of the best and most creative debut albums...ever created.
Louise Attaque happens when you blend classic French music with post-punk rock (trading the guitarist with...well, let's say a "guitaresque" violonist!).
The result is a dazzingly mature effort. The success, too, was fenomenal in France. My way of seeing it is that the music is simply everything we had been wanting to hear for years but were afraid to ask...
I won't tell any more. The album speaks for itself; it is a masterpiece, I LOVE it!

i've met this cd on a trip to france. I started listening to this album and it was kind of narcotic since once you push "play" you can't stop paying atenttion to the speaker. The lyrics are very good and quite deep in some songs. The introduction of the violin in this group is simply brilliant, on each song the tunes of this instrument are played in the most elocuent way. As regards the singer's voice, it has the texture of a "bohemme bourgoise" guy that has been smoking for years and lives his life sorrounded by intelectuals that gather together to discuss existential matters in a tiny cafe in "le quartier latin". With this album you take a trip with brushes of energy, a bit of melancoly and introspective songs. As cigarretes have a typical french flavor this album tastes typically french.