"Having the traditional two arms doesn't restrict French Miami from showing off by pounding their heaving math-rock intricacy through two instruments at once. Each. Inevitably, the local musos cream themselves at such a sight, but this trio have the ability to get you throwing plenty of irregular shapes on the dancefloor too." - NME - UK
"San Fran psychopaths craft skull-collapsing post-punk, wiry (and Wire-y) guitars twitching over steady chugging rhythms." - Rolling Stone
"Art Rock trio, French Miami, have wowed San Francisco with their jagged guitar riffs and throbbing synths. The gritty style is irresistibly catchy and their boisterous live performances have earned them a reputation as a local favorite." - CMJ
"Their electric kool-aid post-punk is stilted by Telecasters winding up the same kind of prickly riffs that bands like Battles and Fiasco usually turn into proggy freak outs, but instead of going all aggro, French Miami end up sounding like a Guy Picciotto band that wouldn't need SPF1000 at the beach." - RCRD LBL
"Ummmmm.....holy shit. Holy, holy shit. That is pretty much, with all the eloquence I own mustered, the only way I know how to describe French Miami. Words don't really do justice to what this trio brings to the table, and upon hearing and seeing this band for the first time I really don't know what else to say but, well, holy shit." - Wiretapmusic.com
Loosely speaking, French Miami is a rock
band. Using rock music as a starting
point, French Miami use its structures as
the glue holding together more abstract
musical ideas: dizzying, jagged guitar riffs
anchored around pulsing synths, harmo-
nized finger-tapping accenting tightly
wound grooves, precise stop-start timing.
And although part of a lineage of a
number of great bands from the Touch
and Go/Southern golden era, Jason
Heiselmann's melodic, memorable vocals
weave the bands more technical ideas into
a unique realm which may too gritty for
pop, yet too hooky not to be.
Since forming in 2006, French Miami has
ascended up the San Francisco totem pole
earning themselves a reputation for as a
local favorite with their raucous live
performances. As a trio, French Miami is
busy on stage swapping roles. The lack of
a bassist not very noticeable by just
listening as their smart guitar interplay
and synth work give the band plenty of
low end. Singer Jason Heiselmann seam-
lessly eases between baritone guitar,
drums, keyboards, and tackling vocals,
while multi-instumentalist Roland Curtis
plays double duty as well on guitar and
synths. Drummer Chris Crawford stays
locked on the drums, his signature
BOOM! creating the backbone of their
sound. For French Miami, it's not making
up for not having enough hands for a bass,
it's about pushing the limits of what a
three-piece group can play and sound like;
without set limits onstage, they're a band
that sound more expansive than any
"power trio" ever could be.
On French Miami's self-titled debut, the
band sought to portray their live show as
best they could. They headed into the
studio with band hero Phil Manley (Trans
Am, Fucking Champs) who committed
their unique blend of prog, post-punk,
and synth-art rock to tape. The result
waxes nostalgic on anthemic 90s recalling
Archers of Loaf and Trans Am, more
contemporarily incorporates the angular
and tense grooves of Battles or Holy Fuck,
and pull it of as earnestly as "the Boss" or
Fugazi. The end self-titled result is terse
and jagged while still melodic, and fueled
by hooks just as much as noisy rhythmic
abandon.
Just don't call them a rock band.
For booking info in the U.S. and Europe contact frenchmiamibooking@gmail.com
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