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The French Exit

The French Exit Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Indie

    Location New York City, New York, US

    Profile Views: 40050

    Last Login: 7/17/2012

    Member Since 12/30/2007

  • Bio

    ..Contact:......thefrenchexitnyc (at) gmail (dot) com......Last FM........Twitter........Muxtape........YouTube........Facebook.. ......Sonicbids EPK......--------------------......Press:........Band of the Week, August 2008.. - ..Stranded In Stereo........"If Tonic was still open, the French Exit would be headlining Saturday nights there...There’s been a big buzz about this band lately, not just because of frontwoman Mia Wilson’s cheekbones or the distant, offhandedly menacing allure she cultivates...long, hypnotic noir anthems...Wilson projects (her lyrics) with the same raw, wounded, vengeful authority as the great blueswomen of the 20s and 30s: she speaks to anyone who’s ever been done wrong....What a viscerally intense way to end what what’s been the best week of concerts in New York all year long.".. - ..Lucid Culture........Top 20 NYC Concerts Of 2008: "a smoldering, evilly beautiful show by the Brooklyn noir trio.".. - ..Lucid Culture........Top 100 Songs of 2008, No. 66, "Bad Sign": "Slowly slinky noir cabaret meets goth meets Godspeed You Black Emperor on this ferocious new one by the excellent NYC underground rockers.".. - ..Lucid Culture........"This noir triad drama slashing, dark, brooding coronaches that take their roots from authoritative bluenesses and psyche music, ofttimes with howling guitar or riotous keyboard orchestration. Get to cognise them now before it costs you an arm and a leg to see them.".. - ..Cindy's Blog........"...The French Exit were the highlight of the night, their dark, murkily beautiful reverb guitar-and-keyboard sound absolutely impossible to turn away from. Henri Harps’ richly metallic washes of chords rang out over Mia Wilson’s understatedly ornate, anguished piano arpeggios, drummer Bryan Sargent’s subtle accents quietly and effectively maintaining the intensity. Their songs burned like a pine pitch torch, slow and smoky but inexorably blazing, Wilson’s soul-simmered, wounded vocals impressively clear in the mix. There’s a hypnotic feel to pretty much everything they do: after awhile, the songs become pretty much impossible to dissect because they draw you in so deeply. Wilson’s lyrics were characteristically savage: “No, this won’t hurt,” she sang with an almost gleeful sarcasm in a new one, Bones and Matches, pounding and ferociously insistent over a repetitive piano hook. “Let me in, let me in,” she implored on the following number. They closed with a towering, majestic, organ-fueled version of Bad Sign, which might be their signature song, building to an explosion of distorted organ and reverb guitar as the chorus kicked in. Are the French Exit the best live band in town? They’re unquestionably one of them. If the darkness calls to you, so will their songs.".. - ....Lucid Culture........--------------------......Past Performances:...... ..PHASE ONE....1.27.08 - Gallery Cabaret, Chicago, IL (solo)..2.18.08 - Silvie's Lounge, Chicago, IL (solo)..3.7.08 - Silvie's Lounge, Chicago, IL (solo) ....PHASE TWO....8.20.08 - Rehab, NYC ..9.20.08 - Freddy's Backroom, Brooklyn, NY ..10.9.08 - Crash Mansion, NYC..10.26.08 - The Annex, NYC..10.28.08 - Piano's, NYC..11.1.08 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ..11.16.08 - Mercury Lounge, NYC..12.1.08 - The Delancey, NYC..1.6.09 - Mercury Lounge, NYC..1.16.08 - Fontana's, NYC..2.25.09 - Cake Shop, NYC (Freestyle Music Series)..3.10.09 - Lit Lounge, NYC..3.21.09 - Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA..4.1.09 - 92.1 WPTS in-studio "Live Show", Pittsburgh, PA..5.13.09 - The Local 269, NYC..6.17.09 - The Local 269, NYC..6.21.09 - Make Music New York Festival @ Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY.. 7.29.09 - The Local 269, NYC..8.9.09 - The Annex, NYC.. .. ..PHASE THREE.. .. TBA

  • Members

    ..Mia Wilson.. - Vocals, Guitar and Piano....Henri Harps.. - Guitar .. .. ..

  • Influences

    PJ Harvey, Joy Division, Nina Simone, Boards of Canada, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sigur Ros, New Order, Cat Power, Portishead, Radiohead, Burial, My Bloody Valentine, Autechre and Tori Amos. .. ........

  • Sounds Like

    ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

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