New or Used : Reissue new Format : LP Grading Cover / Record : S / S Label : our swimmer Year : 2022 Catalog No / Pressing country : WELLE112 - Germany
"Deux Filles was not, in fact, two girls despite what the group name and its elaborate hoax of a backstory suggest. In reality, Deux Filles was Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, a UK duo who first worked together in an early incarnation of The The. Straddling the line between experimental and pop, Turner was an actor and teen singing star who later composed soundtracks for the iconic queer filmmaker Derek Jarman while Tucker's career began as an engineer for the famed UK library music studio, De Wolfe, before forming experimental wave group The Gadgets. In Deux Filles, the duo found an outlet for their least commercial tendencies, combining lo-fi proto-dream-pop instrumentals with samples, tape experiments, ambient textures, and drum machines. Even in the vibrant, seemingly endless well of UK DIY, Deux Filles stand out. Double Happiness is the duo's second album, originally released in 1983 on their own imprint, Papier Maché. Full of meandering guitar and with a more ominous tone than the debut, the album is recommended for fans of Durutti Column and Thomas Leer & Robert Rental's The Bridge." (Our Swimmer)
Tracklist A1 Our English Friends A2 Piroette A3 The Third Movement A4 Play Room A5 Starboard She Said A6 Los Estrallas A7 Albert The Mud Fish A8 Who Art In Heaven A9 Shackleford Breeze A10 2 Blind 2 See A11 Zazinthos B1 Air Tube B2 Little Brown Jig B3 Tongues B4 Shalama B5 The Sun On The Sea B6 Interlude B7 The Snow Falls And The Village Is Overflowing With Children B8 Double Happiness
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"Deux Filles was not, in fact, two girls despite what the group name and its elaborate hoax of a backstory suggest. In reality, Deux Filles was Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, a UK duo who first worked together in an early incarnation of The The. Straddling the line between experimental and pop, Turner was an actor and teen singing star who later composed soundtracks for the iconic queer filmmaker Derek Jarman while Tucker's career began as an engineer for the famed UK library music studio, De Wolfe, before forming experimental wave group The Gadgets. In Deux Filles, the duo found an outlet for their least commercial tendencies, combining lo-fi proto-dream-pop instrumentals with samples, tape experiments, ambient textures, and drum machines. Even in the vibrant, seemingly endless well of UK DIY, Deux Filles stand out.
Double Happiness is the duo's second album, originally released in 1983 on their own imprint, Papier Maché. Full of meandering guitar and with a more ominous tone than the debut, the album is recommended for fans of Durutti Column and Thomas Leer & Robert Rental's The Bridge." (Our Swimmer)
Tracklist
A1 Our English Friends
A2 Piroette
A3 The Third Movement
A4 Play Room
A5 Starboard She Said
A6 Los Estrallas
A7 Albert The Mud Fish
A8 Who Art In Heaven
A9 Shackleford Breeze
A10 2 Blind 2 See
A11 Zazinthos
B1 Air Tube
B2 Little Brown Jig
B3 Tongues
B4 Shalama
B5 The Sun On The Sea
B6 Interlude
B7 The Snow Falls And The Village Is Overflowing With Children
B8 Double Happiness