Biography

This British-French outfit started out in the early 1990s, with a sound that incorporated French-chanteuse vocals, primitive electronics, and Velvet Underground-meets-Neu chugging rhythm. Over the years, they refined their approach immensely, with echoes of sophisticated '60s pop, Steve Reich/Philip Glass-like minimalism, and increasingly more accomplished use of synthesizers. With the help of pals like Gastr Del Sol's Jim O'Rourke and High Llamas mainman Tim O'Hagan, they crafted classic albums that rank among the finest productions of the '90s. In 2002, band member Mary Hansen was killed in a tragic accident, but the group decided to soldier on.

Top Tracks

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• ...sudden Stars

• Aelita

• Avant Garde M.o.r.

• Brakhage

• Brigitte

• Brittle

• Caliméro

• Captain Easychord

• Cellulose Sunshine

• Check And Double Check

• Cosmic Country Noir

• Crest

• Cybele's Reverie

• Dear Marge

• Elektro (he Held The World In His Iron Grip)

• Enivrez-vous

• Everybody's Weird Except Me

• Excursions Into "oh, A-oh"

• French Disco

• French Disko

• Fuses

• Golden Ball

• Hallucinex

• Heavenly Van Halen

• Heavy Denim

• I Feel The Air (of Another Planet)

• Infinity Girl

• Interlock

• International Colouring Contest

• Intervals

• Jenny Ondioline

• John Cage Bubblegum

• K-stars

• L' Enfer Des Formes

• Laserblast

• Lelekato Sugar

• Les Yper Yper Sound

• Lo Boob Oscillator

• Mass Riff

• Metronomic Underground

• Miss Modular

• Monade

• Moodles

• Moogie Wonderland

• Motoroller Scalatron

• Nothing To Do With Me

• Off-on

• One Note Samba/surfboard

• Orgiastic

• Pack Yr Romantic Mind

• Parsec

• Ping Pong

• Plastic Mile

• Self Portrait With Electric Brain

• Silver Sands

• Space Age Bachelor Pad Music

• Spinal Column

• Super-electric

• The Black Arts

• The Extension Trip

• The Free Design

• The Light That Will Cease To Fail

• The Noise Of Carpet

• Three Women

• Transona Five

• Valley Hi!

• Visionary Road Maps

• Vonal Declosion

• Wow And Flutter

• You Used To Call Me Sadness

Discography

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• Not Music

  Drag City / Duophonic UHF

  2010

• Chemical Chords

  4AD

  2008

• Fab Four Suture

  Too Pure

  2006

• Margerine Eclipse

  Elektra

  2004

• Sound-Dust

  Elektra

  2001

• Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night

  Elektra

  1999

• Dots and Loops

  Elektra

  1997

• Emperor Tomato Ketchup

  Elektra

  1996

• Mars Audiac Quintet

  Elektra

  1994

• Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements

  Elektra

  1993

• The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"

  Too Pure / Too Pure/Beggars Group

  1993