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The Delighted Earth For a while now we've been planning a mixtape called How To Seduce A French Art School Student When It's 5am And You've Drunk All The Gin. There'll be bands that Stereolab sound like and bands that sound like Stereolab. We'll have some Neu! Serge Gainsbourg, Faust, Sun Ra and Free Design, then some Deerhoof, NERD, Broadcast, Metronomy and Girls Aloud. It will be more pretentious than Kanye's new flat. Slip it on after preciously quoting some Rimbaud at a near-unconscious Parisian and we guarantee results. And by results we mean they'll absent-mindedly fool around with you for a while, then shout at you, then break some of your stuff, then leave. Because that's the only way seduction by splashily avant-garde pop-rock can, and should, end. Au Revoir Simone are not French and they are not art school students. We will almost certainly never get to fool around with them. But at least we can console ourselves with their pretty, poignant and artfully artless Bontempi-pop. We love this gamine Brooklyn trio and not just for their drum machines. They were in London last night but if, like us, you missed them, don't fret, they're back on 26/02/07. Here's a song from their new album The Bird of Music and one from last year's Verses of Comfort Assurance and Salvation. Au Revoir Simone - Stars [mp3] taken from The Bird of Music [buy] Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes [mp3] taken from Verses of Comfort Assurance and Salvation [buy] Here's the video for new single Fallen Snow: And here's a clip of the girls on stage with David Lynch: Posted by: Scott 14/02/07