Burning Peacocks - Burning Peacocks EP (Choke Industry/Night
Beach Records)
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| Burning Peacocks - Burning Peacocks EP |
When you hear that a musician or
an artist comes from Paris you instantly expect a certain level of romance and
style. With Burning Peacocks, you have to throw in the fact that half of this
duo is a model just increase the 'wow' factor before they've even played a
note. It's a lot to live up to, though, so I hope they've got some chops or at
least a coquettish giggling. This EP opens with 'Games' and instantly we're
transported in to a late night Parisian cafe where two impossibly beautiful
young people look up from their books and coffee to fall in love in a split
second. Lazy guitars, plodding beats and the kind of vocals that are at least
30% honey all mingle to make perfect music for falling in love to. 'Avril'
follows next (either a song about the month of April or my oldest friend's mum)
and it takes the band in a different direction with cheap, 80s electro melodies
accompanied by some spoken word and the kind of style that St Etienne and
Dubstar displayed so perfectly.
On 'Questioning The Silence'
there is a turn for the sinister but without losing the seductive quality
running through the whole EP, a femme fatale quality that can be felt in every
guitar note and piano key throughout the song as it sashays across the floor
and up to your table. Closing with 'The One'. Alma and David get all cinematic,
almost David Lynchian about things but with a tinge of Irish influence in the
rhythms and keys. There is way more substance to this music than I had expected
but that goes hand in hand with the style and romance that I did expect. Time
to fall in love people.
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