Cheveu on Born Bad records

Latest Cheveu on Born Bad records...I'm glad Academy had this because I wasn't about to try to ship it from France....looks like SS records announced in yesterday's email they have 25 copies so email jim or something...they aren't on the catalog page yet with paypl buttons...but he's got them.

A
'Like a deer in headlights' is a really put together, polished, full sounding studio track compared to the experimental anti-pop pieces from the full length. There's plenty more drum machine and synth, but the focus is purely Cheveu melody here. Heavy distorted guitar breaks in about halfway changing the direction of the slow tempo practically dance track. It's sounding to me like early 90's industrial directions...severed heads, killing joke. It's pretty minimal, dark sounding, and purposely devoid of human emotion. But it's a catchy, nearly fun A Side. I keep wanting to hear it.

B
'C'est ca l'amour' If high school french is good for anything it's got to be Cheveu song titles, I'm pretty sure it's 'That's love'. This side we get a dose of the french in electro punk pop recipe. I can only imagine he's singing about some terrible relationships or irony and then the repeated chorus comes in...that's love... Tell me about it.
This track has a simple picked guitar melody, like Smog...it goes on for a while and then the drum machine starts in with pipe organ. The vocals are spoken with lots of deep echo...it's a little sinister, a little halloween...again I'm in high school failing french and listening to Pigface and Meat Beat Manifesto.
Nice work.


Get it from ss records:

Cheveu Like a Deer in the Headlights 7" (Born Bad) 8
These guys are a great band. I know you know that, but damn, this is not only a good single, it isn't retred. The Cheveus push into some nice merge of Tubeway Army and spy guitar music and Cheveu. The flip is a moody spoken over brooding organ piece. A winner. I only have 25 to
sell. No restock.

psychedelic horseshit - half machine records

Well well well, it seems that the only way to hear a track from the psyche-shits new LP is to get this UK only single...god dam it! That's really ridiculous it's import only.
I understand the backlash against this sound, or even it being labeled right away, it is annoying but I can't fault this sound. It exists in that borderline between experimental and pop. It's that middle ground that is an extension of sebadoh and every 4 track side project. I just know that when I put the needle down I have no idea where this is going. It fits into that history of america, the audio tinkerer in the garage on the weekends on this new invention. It could be completely ridiculous or change everything.
Like the frustration with non narrative film, you can get annoyed by not being able to follow the story, you have to give up that control in a way and just appreciate what's happening in front of you with no expectations. Psychedelic Horseshit, the whole shitgaze ship is forcing you to start in that place and let go.
New Wave Hippies is on their myspace, that's probably as close as I'm going to get to this. It might be cheaper do this.

Found it from Volcanic Tongue's review:
Psychedelic Horseshit
New Wave Hippies
Half Machine Records HMR-007
7”
£3.99

UK-only EP from Psychedelic Horseshit, with five tracks that span primitive dub environs through acerbic post-Fall basement rants, including a track from the Siltbreeze LP. Edition of 300 copies.

Debut UK single by Psychedelic Horseshit.

Tracks are:
1. (Intro) Dub Gaze
2. New Wave Hippies
3. Portals (5am Demo)
4. Silent Speed
5. Magick Defends Itself Pt.3

Episode 18 - Me and Matt play Kaputt from the too pure singles club... it gets a mixed review, Diet Cola, (I think a SIDS side project) again we split, and finally Cheveu (Matt calls them the French Ministry) ....we become completely speechless which I think was a good thing....for you!

CHEVEU / CRASH NORMAL

I've been playing far too much GTA4 to even make any kind of assumptions about this release, I am damn excited about it though. I haven't even made time to listen to the full length by Cheveau yet that I got on white vinyl a couple weeks ago. Nope, instead I've been completely spending every waking moment playing those damn violent video games.

I did however, catch this listing but not before the 100 blue have sold out.... but the 400 black are still available from Rococo, who has been pressing really great stuff lately. Everytime I forget about them, or think they can't have another great 7", they do.

It's ridiculous, I'm in full collecting mode, I see something like this and just order before I even have a chance to really check it out. Sometimes it feel completely out of control, like it's really a borderline addiction. I sometimes imagine I'll be on that show Intervention, and all I have is a room in a transient hotel and boxes of seven inches, and I don't eat...they interview my friends about how I used to have other interests. Hopefully I calm down a little this summer...get out....experience life for gods sake.
I'm sure you want this too....just be warned.

CHEVEU / CRASH NORMAL - 'SPLIT'
ROCOCO RECORDS
500 Copies only: From Paris, France. They dare to fuse garage punk, funky loops, and digital cut and paste and actually pull it off. Humm, dance, break things, jump up and down to the compu-punk groove these Frenchies lay down. As good as the 3.5 7 inches you might have heard by them.Frenchmen's unique take on punk rock & electro, kind of like a bastard mating of Trio, Stockhausen, and King Coleman - or at least that challenging. BUT the Cheveu don't lose the song in their experimentation. You can even dance to these numbers.

The Weakends on Rob's House

The Weakends is some french punk, shitty no-fi blues courtesy of Rob's House, recorded/produced by Cheveu, so you get an idea of what we're going to be working with. You know that french garage rock scene that you've been hearing so much about? Right.
They are banging away, singing through broken PA's, sounding like a way cooler hot rod, 50's, b-movie band then you ever remember, or they sound like what those bands should have sounded like, but they were too self aware or just never that good.

This is being played in France? Seriously, these guys are not in it for the money.

Small Towns is just a rocking little repetitive screechy fuzzed out guitar number, David or Simon is yelling, snarling about something, the drums can endearingly barely keep up, they make it seem so easy, but don't sound like dicks. Recorded with a barely working cassette player, heavy on the treble, please.

A very reasonable $4 from Rob's House.

----rhr034: THE WEAKENDS-----------------------------

debut release from bordeaux's the weakends [website] and gauranteed to please. too many lo-fi fuzzed out influences to name but these guys live it and this is just their first step on the way to claiming the title of france's best garage band. recorded by french weird punks cheveu.

[500 pressed; black vinyl]

side a:
death rides

side b:
small towns

By the way all the out of print recent titles on Rob's House are available from parasol.

tyvek/cheveu west coast tour split 7"

Tyvek is more low-fi garage pure rock greatness, it has the same feel as Be Kind Rewind, the way Michel Gondry uses almost nothing to create a huge effect but still so different you aren't even comparing it to the thing it might be influenced by. It's something like that.
I think if you took some babies and put them on a planet where there was no rock and gave them a guitar and drums and a bass, it would start with something like sonic youth noise, just making crazy sounds but eventually after years you would have this raw tyvek sound...it's almost inevitable, it's in the DNA of the instruments. We keep coming back to it.
I could listen to this all day. I don't even think there's a full length yet just 4 or 5 7"'s which have not gone unnoticed. Nodzzz, Tyvek, Cococoma, Times New Viking, Jay Reatard, Rob's House, Coathangers....these are the year 2000 garages. This didn't even have to try, it just leaked out into the street and pressed itself on vinyl.
Cheveu takes this sound in a more electronic, junky direction, but always pulling weird effects and things into the same garage. Maybe their dad worked on computers and Tyvek's dad had like some rusted musclecars. You work with what you have. They both did the same conceptual thing and ended up on this split west coast tour 7 inch.
I just ordered the Cheveu LP from S-S records, but now I have to go find something else to add to this split 7". Oh well. I know it's hard.
That sleeve looks great too.
Go get a taste of both.


TYVEK/CHEVEU-split 7” (S-S/SS027) $4
“Two months after Tyvek & Cheveu's fantastic West Coast tour, the "tour" 7" comes out! Right on. Ahhhh but many of you would have missed them anyway, so all you had was a wait on your hands. Right on. Tyvek is from Detroit. Like the first, with ‘Future Junk’, Tyvek continue to explore the melodic fringe of DIY, stealing bits & pieces from the classics but pulling it off...Cheveu, on the other hand, continue to spiral into new directions. On ‘El Tortuga’, it sounds like our dirty French men have been sucking on Another Man's Sac. Of course, it is a sideways suck. What else would you expect from the one band to define the cheap phrase "weird punk" better than anyone on the planet. No fancy pressing info on this: Just two good songs.
Only a few in stock, label has less than 100 left of their 1000 pressing.

On S-S records.
They also have copies of the Mayyors 7", so now you have no excuse.