Team Ghost

There's just something about Paris, and France actually, when it comes down to music. It's not that French ears are tuned exquisitely or that they have better equipment or more complex ideas, it's just everything is so goddamn cool. And slick. You walk around the Paris quartiers and always seem to bump into their same, stylish, guitar-carrying, leather jacket-wearing dude material: everyone always equipped with their own trendy walk. It's this attitude-drenched ambience that is reflected in their music. The new kids on the arrondissement (well I say new, but one of them was in M83 6 years ago) that are doing this are TEAM GHOST. These guys are producing brilliant Chilled-out fuzz pop in a familiar, but better, vein to our The Big Pink. The soporific vocals of former-M83-member Nicolas Fromageau relax the listener yet strangely give them a feeling of strong emotion. The group used a mix of Guitars and Synths on their recent EP, sounding like a New Order-tinged Dinosaur Jr. A complex fusion, but a fantastic one that'll hopefully see them one day get as much recognition as fellow Frenchmen Phoenix and Air.

 Check them out on Myspace here.