Formed in in 2010 by a duo of Biarritz punk kids rejected by Parisian art schools La Femme are now arguably France’s biggest band and have established a cult international reputation. Having audaciously gambled with a DIY US tour before they were signed, generating their own hype and hoodwinking the French music industry into chasing after them, they returned to Paris as bona fide red carpet stars and have since picked up multiple gold records, soundtracked Celine and Yves Saint Laurent runway shows, and twice featured on the cover of France’s most influential culture publication, Les Inrockuptibles.
Their most recent album Teatro Lucido serves as a good introduction - an eclectic, unpredictable mix of genres, language and sounds that takes an eclectic trip through electro-pop, psychedelia, surf rock, space age country and disco, all produced with a widescreen cinematic boho imagination.
If you’re after a band that tears up the rule book and creates a wildly inventive, kaleidoscopic musical party, look no further.
