If like me, you are a little bit rusty on your French electro pop, I urge you to ease yourself in by getting familiar with the sounds of Electric Electric. Having recently released their second studio album ‘Discipline’ via Herzfeld records, Eric Bentz …

Bands that name themselves with the ‘hard-soft’ naming convention may do so to suggest the diversity of their sound. This concept fits perfectly for French rockers Papier Tigre who describe their music as ‘challenging punk [that] combines elements of e …

Holy. Shit. That was pretty much my reaction when I pressed play on ‘La Ligne Âpre’ by Tormenta.  Never having heard of these guys before I genuinely had no idea what they sounded like beyond the fact they were on the increasingly consistently brillian …

The opening couple of tracks on Aucan’s debut album are deceptive, I wonder if deliberately so, as they give very little hint as to the sheer raw wondrous brutality of what is to come. ‘Blurred’ is a lovely Portishead-esque lilting number full of beaut …

My French is pretty rubbish these days, but I think ‘La Chaleur’ translates as ‘Heat’.  Highly apt for a band who, when myself and two other E&D stalwarts were lucky enough to catch them live, were sweating so much one of them looked like he’d been …