[July 27 - August 2]
Synopsis: Easily enjoyed to minimalist indie-pop duet with a tiny dash of zing and minusculity? Ouais.
One week, one band. You know the drill.
This week, the featured artist is Minuscule Hey.
There's this thing about uniqueness. It's important, standing out of the crowd, that is. There are plenty of folks content to go with the general flow of traffic, following all the major thoroughfares. But it's so boring! I mean, just take a drive on the highway; marred with potholes, you'll spend most of your time (no doubt, if you live in as large of a metropolitan area as I), stuck in traffic, being tailgated, or watching warily for those cops with the motorcycles. It's bad enough on the highway, much less in life. No sir'y-bob! That's not for certain folks out there, and these certain people brave the side streets in search of the scenic routes. Adventuring of the often beaten trails - maybe you'll find something out there, maybe not - but the point is, living within the confines of the typical gets... well, typical.
Atypicality is a spice in life! A quirky taste, that tastes something like cayenne peppers. You've got to savour it, and there's plenty of neat stuff to celebrate. Minuscule Hey knows that, and they represent it well. Okay, so their 'hey' is small, Minuscule Hey doesn't mind much. This anglophonic French band out of Bordeux labels themselves 'mini rock.' And there's no real phrase that could express it any better.
Eclectic is the name of the game for Emily and Laurent of Minuscule Hey. They go for mixing it up, these two troubadours. They swirl pop and rock perfectly together like some wildly delicious milkshake concoction, all tastes tantalizing, musical notes dancing across your audio-cerebral taste buds like some truly imaginative invention of sound and style. Accompanied by their trusty drum machine a tut tut tutting away for them, Minuscule Hey brings tapping feet, dancing hearts, and nodding heads together all at once - all like minded individuals converging and crashing cataclysmically together in some sort of musical combobulation. I think the message here is that this is some fabulous music.
Minuscule Hey caught my heart up with their fabulous cover of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" that began to circulate across the internet earlier this year. As it so turns out, Minuscule Hey has released that cover, along with their 10 other minimalistic ditties spread out across three low key EPs, their eponymous debut, Bananoffee, and their latest release titled We Feel Minuscule. I'm not sure where any of us can score the two first records... I'm at a complete loss this time, reader. But! Minuscule Hey had We Feel Minuscule debuted by French indie label Alienor Records, and you can listen to and snag yourself a copy of this nifty EP off of their site for €4.
Minuscule Hey is taking a break for the summer before they launch on a minuscule tour about England in October, followed by some French shows afterwards. Leur site est seulement en Français maintenant, but they're working on getting an English version of the site operational soon! You can check out aforementioned website right here. Or you can go peruse their Myspace, which has a host of their great songs! Or, if you're having fun wandering around Voilà!, you could always check out their Bob Dylan cover right here. In any event, reader, I bid you an imaginative week. Have fun!
2 comments:
brilliant !
All their videos are awesome. But that's my personal favourite. :]
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