Empty beds and lonely dinners

i was alerted to Au Revoir Simone only this morning by my lover, principally because she asked if i’d heard much by them and, shamefully, i hadn’t. She was curious because she likes the name and thinks their legs look great in photographs, and although i’ve not checked the whole legs thing – i’m not really sure it stands with my principles – i agree about the tag; maybe it’s a stark yet forlorn goodbye to Nina Simone? Or a floral yet scathing dismissal to Simone Clarke? Let’s face it, probably not. Anyhow, i’ve included ‘Through The Backyards’ off their debut album Verses Of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation, partly because it was the only one i could find BUT also because it featured on Grey’s Anatomy a while back.

Au Revoir Simone – Through The Backyards

The trio’s new album The Bird Of Music came out this week in the UK on
Moshi Moshi, if you’re in Japan though you’ll have to wait until April and US readers (uhm, hi?) will have to wait until May 1st. They play annual bus driver’s holiday South By Southwest this year, which should be nice for those jammy A&R gits, and you can hear some of their (really rather good) tracks, as always, on here.