I WANNA BONE AU REVOIR SIMONE

Okay, okay, I admit it. The reason I wanted to interview all-girl Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone is because I fancy them. All three of them. At the same time. David Lynch likes them too. They're his favourite band. At their recent London gig I tried to chat them up, but we ended up talking about creepy stalker guys at gigs and I felt weird and had to make my excuses...

Vice: Your synths sound joyous but your lyrics are weepy. I don't know whether to sing hallelujah or self-harm.
Erika: A lot of the songs we write are about heartbreak and trying to figure things out. We're all in our mid-twenties, making decisions about finding your own way and all of that stuff. A lot of it is really sad and depressing but I think we all have this attitude that things happen for a reason and that there's an underlying beauty in everything. I think that comes out in the music.

Yet you all seem so chirpy. What pisses you off?
Erika: Vegetarian food in France.
Heather: People who don't turn off the lights when they leave the room.
Annie: I used to hate a lot of things but I'm trying not to anymore - it's my New Year’s resolution.

What other resolutions did you make?
Erika: Better posture.
Annie: Letting things go. You can't take things too seriously because everybody is so up their own ass...
Heather: Yeah, and if you're angry you project anger on to everyone else. Whatever you're feeling resonates around your being...
Annie: Yeah, and whoever you hang out with. It's just like picking up an accent. I think it's really important to have positive people in your life. If you're always giving out positive energy then a lot of positive stuff happens. That's our trick.

You look pretty dorky dancing behind your keyboards. Why don't you all get keytars?
Annie: Keytars are apparently really hard to play.
Erika: The first band I was ever in, my friend put a strap around my keyboard so I could play it like that, but it was really big and really heavy.

The crowd tonight was a bit of a sausage fest. Does that creep you out?
Erika: I can't tell if it's they fancy us or if it's just that in general there are more guys at indie-rock shows.
Annie: A lot of times our crowd is a total mixed bag. In Japan we have a lot of female fans, but a couple of shows in Europe have been really guy-centric. At our last London show, the first three rows were just guys our age or older. It was weird. 

You're touring a lot this year. Do you ever get on each other's nerves?
Annie: We're like sisters, so not really. We had a pillow fight once.

Please tell me you were just in your bra and panties.
Erika: We shouldn't be volunteering this information - especially to Vice.

Umm… Well, thanks for your time.
Heather: What? Ask us some more questions.

I gotta go. Bye.

- Au Revoir Simone’s new album, The Bird of Music, is out now on Moshi Moshi.

DOM TUNON

Comments

[Sofia]

David Lynch? They look and sound like a Sofia Coppola movie.

[fagsalot]

Is this video an urban outfitters ad??

p.s. I would also be mucho creeped out by any guys at their shows (either total pussies or rapists)

[obvious]

..or total straight, heterosexual males with boners for cute girls.

[nacnud]

YES i love them. they sound good. new. fresh. this is why music can never die becuase even in a hundred years even if people play the same songs as they are now with different names we'd still go and see it becuase oh i dont know but they are HOT

[Colm]

I think Belle and Sebastien did twee 60's pop better. and Broadcast.

[kpo]

come onn their music is completely BORING : / soweh

[Miguel]

C'mon they know what they are doing. This dreamy music combined with three european-art-movie-tinkerbell-perhaps-also-lesbians is a sure succes. This is like indie-soft-porn. But yeah i'd go see them. Hopefully they don't get all "awww we thought the people are here just for the MUSIC!"

[PrussianDues]

thier music sucks

[ceedee]

uggggghh terrible singing

[Bonkeykong]

If you took stereolab and neutered out the chugging rythms, you'd have this.

[asdf]

They can't sing.

[babykeepsitreal]

this is the clothes issue and, well the girl in the blue totally got that shit at built by wendy. friend totally had the same one and it cost just over a benjamin.

[Blancs]

Please, regain your maleness and stop it already. You think that they are cute. End of story. They're no Luscious Jackson.

[Scott Baio]

There's no pianos in my pond.

[PML]

ARS rock...not really, actually rock, but I've been to about 5 of their shows in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and they can put on a show - very mixed crowd btw (at least in NYC). Yeah they are adorable. Yeah they are a tad dorky, but that's cool. At the moment they are doing something real and are tapping into a new indie vein, Twee 60s Pop + Kraftwerk. They can write a song and sing well enough for the style they inhabit. So get over yourselves. Cute girls + keyboards + dreamy electropop = Indie Rock Sensation