{"id":1936,"date":"2013-06-23T03:03:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T03:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:34:26","slug":"guardian-bird-la-poupee-k7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/guardian-bird-la-poupee-k7\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Bird- La Poup\u00e9e K7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve received a few requests for this one through various channels so sorry for the delay on this one.\u00a0 This was passed down to me by a few fellow collectors but to my knowledge, it hasn’t been shared yet, outside of a few tracks on Youtube.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most people are mainly familiar with this obscure French coldwave\/goth band via Ext\u00e9rieur Nuit<\/em>, a more modern collection of French obscurities including M\u00e9moires D’Automne<\/a>.\u00a0 The same track appears here, making this the band’s only known release. <\/p>\n

I know very little about the band, except that they were based in Lille and had six members (two guitarists, drums, bass, vocals, and synth).\u00a0 This tape was released in 1991, and features a more aggressive sound than most of touching pop bands that were heavily active around that time period.\u00a0 The closest touchstones I can think of are Bauhaus (especially in the vocals), The Bolshoi, or early Gene Loves Jezebel, combining cold synths, powerful vocals, and big guitar hooks.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a sound that was likely passe at that point in time, but nice to hear a French variant of it.\u00a0 The centerpiece of the tape is the eight minute “Le Jeune et le Bleu,” which aims for Disintegration<\/em>-esque highs and falls somewhere between the eponymous track from that record, and “Out of Mind”- the underrated b-side from the Fascination Street\/Lullaby<\/em> 12”, and would fit in alongside songs like Escape With Romeo’s “Somebody” as a lesser-known mid-tempo guitar epic.\u00a0 And what better way to follow up an eight minute epic than with a ten minute track, which features a more guttural snarl.<\/p>\n

T.T.I.C.C. Contingent also released tapes from Bunker Strasse and L’Avis G821.<\/p>\n

\"R-864469-1166824971\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Guardian Bird- La Poup\u00e9e<\/em> K7
\n1. Clumsy Gesture
\n2. La Poup\u00e9e
\n3. Renaissance
\n4. Penombra Of Vice
\n5. Le Jaune Et Le Bleu
\n6. Parc Pour Fou
\n7. Sens<\/p>\n

*download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve received a few requests for this one through various channels so sorry for the delay on this one.\u00a0 This was passed down to me by a few fellow collectors but to my knowledge, it hasn’t been shared yet, outside of a few tracks on Youtube.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most people are mainly familiar with this obscure French […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,39,54,156,648,785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-158","category-coldwave","category-france","category-french","category-goth","category-guardian-bird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}