Review: Au Revoir Simone – Night Light
The remixes on this album “Night Light” by Brooklyn-born band Au Revoir Simone are lush,light and girlie. This album was released by Moshi Moshi records on 5 July 2010,and is a spin-off from the band’s third album Still Night,Still Light”(released summer 2009).
Au Revoir Simone are: Erika Forster(keys,vocals),Annie Hart(keys/vocals) and Heather D’Angelo (drum machines,keys/vocals).They formed in Autumn 2003 and originally had a fourth member,Sung Bin Park(keys/vocals),but in January 2005 Sung Bin left and the band continued as a trio.
Their sound is brittle,breezy,lightweight and hypnotic electro-folk.The album has twelve tracks,featuring remixes from Aeroplane, Jens Lekman, Neon Indian, Silver Columns and Deradoorian (Angel Deradoorian from much-lauded band The Dirty Projectors).
The tracks on this album are reworked from the aforementioned album “Still Night, Still Light.”
Au Revoir Simone’s members’ vocals are heard in echo amidst the different separate remixes,making the album sound like an intricate musical tapestry,as the band’s influences compris Stereolab, Pavement, Bjork, The Beach Boys, Bowie, The Bee Gees and Billie Holiday.
A.R.Simone have played shows in the Far East,Mexico and Korea.They have also toured Europe and played The Scala in London in June 2010.
Other credits include a US tour in 2006 with We Are Scientists and a recent US tour with Peter, Bjorn and John. The NME have described their music as such that “will leave you crying on the stairs in the middle of the night.” (in a good way, as it is a very beguiling album.)
