Enjoyable pop with some fun tunes. Check out this video. Now I want to go bowling! They are from London, like the Olympics.
Peter and Kerry – La Trimouille (2012)
A bit about the album:
Peter and Kerry’s La Trimouille is the absolute embodiment of fizyy, happy electro pop. Their music welcomes eighties synth influences besides modern pop artists and cult classics like Belle and Sebastian. At times the influence of Cajun Dance Party can be heard, and at others there is a hint of Two Door Cinema Club, and then, bizarrely, Human League and Grizzly Bear. This record epitomises the carefree and youthful impact of the summer season, coupled with the foreboding presence of age and growing up. Here Peter and Kerry attempt to grasp their youth as it slips through their fingers, and the result is an upbeat but desperately frantic record. The duo manage to hone these two atmospheres to near perfection, allowing for a charming, eclectic record.
The stand out features of La Trimouille are the harmonious relationship between Peter and Kerry’s voices. Kerry’s vocal is soft and soulful and Peter has the ability to either perfectly compliment it (like in Montmorillon) or become a chaotic perpendicular strand. The result is a diverse range of vocal experimentation for two people. Elsewhere, popcorn metronomes (like in Fifty in the $lot$) and delightfully eighties’ synths and melodies contrast with sometimes beefy drum beats and delicate keyboards. The incorporation of so many elements, part-trance-like chanting, and part-sweet and soulful vocals, contribute wholeheartedly to the diversity of the record. Stand out tracks include Cirque, a narrative of self-discovery and assertion, and Annie, which highlights Peter and Kerry’s diversity of approach to atmosphere and style, delightfully upbeat in comparison to Cirque, and equally as good.
Either way, Peter and Kerry show with their debut album their ability to successfully conquer different genres and themes within one record, and still manage to make it sound distinctly different from anything that has been produced before them. Kudos.