La Femme

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La Femme Release New Song and Video “Cool Colorado” Second Single from Upcoming Third Album

After their unanimously acclaimed come-back single “Paradigme,” the French psych-pop band La Femme presents “Cool Colorado,” a new excerpt of their upcoming third album (details TBA). The single is released via the band’s label Disque Pointu, distributed worldwide by IDOL.

Watch “Cool Colorado” here: https://youtu.be/LcB37w3Aou8 spirit. “Colorado is the first American state which legalized cannabis, this is where the line ‘And I smoke in the streets without stress’ comes from,” La Femme adds. “This song is also related to the Beatnik spirit, to the literature of Kerouac. Do you remember the Magic Bus? It was going from Europe to Kathmandu on a nowmythical hippie trail.”

“‘Cool Colorado’ alludes to Directed by La freedom, the insouciance of a journey,” Femme and Aymeric the band explains. “We were somewhere Bergada du Cadet, the between the states of Utah and Wyo- video for “Cool Colorado” ming, during our last American tour, extends the mysterious when this ode to the San Francisco of the universe and unique 70s, which is so rare and precious to us aesthetic of their video for even if we never lived in this period, “Paradigme,” released in came to us.” September. “This is a sort of psychedelic mass This new song composed by parodying the cliché of members Sacha Got and Marlon Magnée the ‘teen idol’ in the way immediately evokes the psychedelic of Brian Jones or Swan 36 Rock and Blues International • Decvember 2020 from ‘Phantoms of the Paradise.’ Like a pastiche of a past period of time. All of these videos parody some clichés of the twentieth century music, from the thirties to nowadays. This new album is a music piece which pays tribute to all the music of the past century.”

Formed in 2010, the then unknown band hoodwinked the French music industry by lining up a DIY US tour with only $3,000 and an EP. After playing 20 gigs around the US, La Femme returned home with immense interest from the Parisian music scene. “The industry was like, ‘What the fuck? They have an EP out and they are touring in the US and we don’t know them?” Magnée told The Guardian. “So the buzz began to start. When we came back to France, it was red carpet. Fucking DIY.” The band’s 2013 debut album Psycho Tropical Berlin won a Victoires de la Musique award (France’s equivalent to the GRAMMYs), and their 2016 sophomore album Mystére was praised by Sound Opinions, Line of Best Fit, The Guardian, All Music, BrooklynVegan, and more.

Now, La Femme will return with a new album in 2021. “This album does not correspond to one specific period of our lives,” the band explains. “We have always composed songs all along the journey of the band. Therefore, this album is composed with temporality, it has to be seen as a big piece of a puzzle we create. It is an ongoing process, but all this stays in the range of a concept and remains uncertain.”