{"id":346,"date":"2007-07-12T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2007\/07\/12\/au-revoir-simone\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:50:06","slug":"au-revoir-simone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2007\/07\/12\/au-revoir-simone\/","title":{"rendered":"~Au Revoir Simone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Au_Revoir_Simone__1.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"342\" alt=\"Au Revoir Simone #1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Au_Revoir_Simone___2.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Au Revoir Simone #2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Au_Revoir_Simone__3_CD.jpg\" width=\"355\" height=\"359\" alt=\"Au Revoir Simone #3-CD\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The debut CD, <em>The Bird of Music<\/em>, by the new all-girl group, Au Revoir Simone,<br \/>\nis a welcome breath of fresh air. The music is a combination of my favorite girl groups<br \/>\nfrom the 80&#8217;s, mainly The Go-Go&#8217;s and The Raincoats.<\/p>\n<p>The Pop wildness with all those synthesizers sends me back (not in a retro way)<br \/>\nto the 80&#8217;s and sunny California, while the more serious lyrics gets me to gray London<br \/>\nand that independent stance strongly advocated by The Raincoats.<\/p>\n<p>The other girl group that I was into in the early 80&#8217;s, The Slits, (who were making<br \/>\nvery gutteral and experimental noise music) are not here, but their alternative<br \/>\nspirit is.<\/p>\n<p>Take your time with this CD, for it reveals itself slowly and in layers. The great<br \/>\nsongs are &#8216;Sad Song&#8217;, &#8216;Night Majestic&#8217;, &#8216;The Lucky One&#8217;, &#8216;Dark Halls&#8217;, and the awesome<br \/>\n&#8216;The Way To There&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This CD is as sweet as The Be-Good Tanyas&#8217; first CD, <em>Chinatown<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>cover and back photos by Flora Hanitijo.<\/p>\n<p>Au Revoir Simone is Heather D&#8217;Angelo, Erika Forster, and Annie Hart.<\/p>\n<p>Words and Music by Au Revoir Simone.<br \/>\nCopyright &amp; Publication 2006 Triple Keyboard Action<br \/>\nOur Secret Record Company<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/aurevoirsimone\">www.myspace.com\/aurevoirsimone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debut CD, The Bird of Music, by the new all-girl group, Au Revoir Simone, is a welcome breath of fresh air. The music is a combination of my favorite girl groups from the 80&#8217;s, mainly The Go-Go&#8217;s and The Raincoats. The Pop wildness with all those synthesizers sends me back (not in a retro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}