Aidan Curran posted on February 17, 2008 15:42
Your Paris-based blogger is always glad to find Irish acts who love le French touch. Neil Hannon is a noted Francophile, for instance, and Dark Room Notes paid homage to classic French cinema in their video for 'Love Like Nicotine'.
And then there's Dublin electronica duo Les Bien (right). As well as the French name (suggestively sexy, at the expense of correct grammar - very Parisian), they're an electronica duo and you can't really get more French than that, non?
Mais si! *Gallic shrug* The two lads, Simon and Leon, have a cracking track called 'We Don't Speak French'. It's a fine bit of dancefloor français with, for that extra Parisian touch, a breathy female asking "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" every few seconds.
The tune has come to our attention because of its video by NYU Tisch School Of Arts student Kelly Goeller. Their collaboration is part of the Hot Press/NYU series of videos. An excellent concept - unfortunately, Hot Press thinks that the video is for 'Can't Speak French' by Le Bien. In fairness to HP, though, the band's own website (not updated in a year) calls them Le Bien and speaks about their "raison d'aitre" (they can't spell French either). And Kelly Goeller's site calls the Le Bien too.
But they're Les Bien on their MySpace page and in the photo above. And, given our puerile nom de blog, choosing which band name to use was a no-brainer.
You can hear more from Le(s) Bien at their MySpace page. Here's the aforementioned video for "We Don't Speak French":
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