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Still Night, Still Light

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Au Revoir Simone (Brooklyn-based trio comprised of Heather D' Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart) release a new studio album on their own label, Our Secret Recording Company.
Apparently their strange and yet evocative and nostalgic name comes from a line in the cult movie Pee-Wee Herman's "Big Adventure".
Produced by Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Little Joy) and recorded in various studios between Brooklyn,NY, and Los Angeles, CA, the CD features songs written by all three ladies and has a strong thematic cohesion, as if composed by a singular voice.
They seem to take themselves a little more seriously on this set while keeping their signature sound.
They have described their disarmingly minimalist music quite accurately as "dreamy electronic lo-fi keyboard pop".
"Still Night, Still Light" finds the three ladies in a contemplative mood, musing on the emotional tolls of the touring lifestyle.
It's a record that details reflection, seeking, questioning and losing one's place on the page while looking for the right way home.
Considering the album's subject matter, maybe these early tracks are meant to represent the half-awake existence of the travelling musician, conveying the effect of constantly shifting between the buzz of the stage and the lull of the tour bus.
Having ditched the bells and whistles featured on their second album "The Bird Of Music", a fantastic dream where dancing penguins and talking panda's take you to the house you grew up in, this third effort focuses entirely on their keyboard drones, clunky-but-appealing rhythm tracks and curiously blank, though oddly appealing voices, still showing the ever-so-delicate, casio-heavy dream pop down as they explore their dark side.
It's more of an introspective daydream where a parallel world plays out like a movie if you only took the other path at that fork that was once in the road.
Brilliantly executed, warm and personal, the album combines its icy starkness with an almost contradictory fervour,choosing to retain its fragile beauty without ever breaking it.
"With pop melodies as winning as "Shadows" and the manically noodling "Knight Of Wands", you may soon find yourself quietly humming along". -BBC
The Bird of Music

Au Revoir Simone always continues to please! These girls deserve to be much more famous and recognized than they are!

This trio is an inspiring act to pick up a keyboard and create sounds.
I love their poetic lyrics, their sounds, that drum machine and I can't stop listening to them.

This whole album is great, I can't pick out a favorite song but I will say that ALL or Nothing was the main song I heard on their website that made me want to buy this cd.

This is another Great album by Au Revoir Simone. Their voices are like sweet butter and sound perfect together. The dreamy instrumentals create such a perfect background to their harmonic tones. I love their previous album The Bird of Song and was thrilled to hear that this album stands on firm ground in succession. I can't wait to crank it up in the car and swim in their sweet sounds.

When I hear their music, I feel like skipping through rolling fields of tall golden grass in the warm summer sun, singing for joy. They are fantastic!

greater POTENTIAL -a destiny beyond simple pop
I heard them on the radio-and was intriqued enough to look here
they are young-yet seem to have a clue-a certain maturity
-they look bright-rather-they sound and look a lack of pretense and myopia

not your typical pop music;
a year of music theory
write about anything EXCEPT BF/GF/relationships
-been done to death; we need more music with insight, observations into the world around us-as it crumbles- music about the others

oblique lyrics always draw me which they seem to have an grasp of
graduate from the casio diversify instruments
I KNOW they would blossom and do really well

pop doesnt last
musicians do

I heard about this band through my friend and this cd Still Night, Still Light by Au Revoir Simone is a very good cd.This cd has very good songs which are very catchy and melodic, if you like New Order and early Depeche mode you will definitely enjoy this album. This album has very good electronic and synth driven songs which I like very much, I was surprised by how good this cd was. Their previous cd is very good also. Au Revoir Simone keep on rocking.