La Femme

After the Spanish escapade ‘Teatro Lucido’ and the sweet journey ‘Paris Hawai’, the group created by Marlon Magnée and Sacha Got continues their world tour with ‘Rock Machine,’ their first album entirely written in English. Composed over the past few years during various tours around the world, this new LP has been strongly inspired by the succession of dates in the USA, Canada, South America, Australia, and the encounters that ensued.

The band returns to its New Wave and Synthwave roots from their acclaimed first LP ‘Psycho Tropical Berlin’ (Machine), which they mix with an Anglo-Saxon rock sound from the 80s/90s (Rock). This album is an ode to rock’n’roll, its effectiveness, and timelessness, but also an ode to love and despair. 

La Femme continues to develop with Rock Machine a universe beyond trends with their own sound and aesthetics. In addition to rock and synthwave sounds (of which ‘Clover Paradise’ is the perfect example), there’s still electro (Sweet Babe), surf music (Ciao Paris), disco with a UK punk twist (My Generation), and even elements of western. ‘Venus’  is a marvelous mix between The Velvet Underground and The Mama’s and the Papa’s, ‘Love is Over’ sounds like a “Madchester” single from the Hacienda time… The list is long but always unique and coherent.

SHORT BIO : 

Led by Marlon Magnée and Sacha Got for more than 10 years, French neo-psych ensemble La Femme has created its own movement, inspired by loads of different music genres including new wave, rock, electro, punk… and is described by Pitchfork as “perhaps the biggest rock band in France right now”. The band has numerous gold records, has won Victoires de la Musique (equivalent to the Grammy Awards in France) , played more than 600 shows over the last ten years and supported the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their European Tour in 2016. They wrapped up in 2022/2023 a largely sold-out tour of over 30 countries including the US, Canada, LATAM, Europe and Australia. 

Audiences value the fact that La Femme is one of the last bands to present an entirely live show, with no computers or pre-recorded backing tracks to bolster their performance. A rare enough occurrence to be noted, La Femme is one of the last bastions of “real” live music, one of the only French bands defending pure, unbridled and hypnotic energy. Since their phenomenal debut in 2010, which earned them a Victoire de la Musique in 2014 and several Gold Records, La Femme have earned their place among the greatest current francophone acts in the world.

In the beginning, with Psycho Tropical Berlin, La Femme introduced themselves by reinterpreting a form of cold wave mixed with 1960’s surf guitars over psychedelic music. Those in the know thought they had clocked this strange phenomenon’s formula, until they were forced to re-evaluate with Mystère, then Paradigme, which mixed unique styles within the same album: soul, motown, disco,rap, reggaeton, breakbeat, electro, slow-dance, country and western… Inspired by the Velvet Underground and Kraftwerk, Françoise Hardy and Jacno, Morricone and Moroder, they produce the most unexpected blends and insist on blurring the lines between genres. As the touchstone and spearhead of a nameless but nevertheless genuine movement, La Femme has always tried to promote the French language until 2022 when they released Teatro Lucido, an album sung entirely in Spanish. Indeed, La Femme has recently released the first two albums from their “Collection Odyssey”: Teatro Lucido, which contains the banger ‘Sacatela’, a Spanish odyssey that received support from media all around the world, and Paris-Hawaii, which is comprised of Hawaiian love songs.  

Now it’s Rock Machine’s time!