Caroline

Their first album can drop any minute (see their official site), but for now you listen and download (at a very low bitrate) four tracks of Lady Palavas. This Montpellier quintet is one of the biggest discoveries I did surfing MySpace. The sexy voice of Caroline Febvre, their mix of disco, bossa and sixites-pop (they call it easy-pop themselves and refer to Brigitte Bardot, the Tricatel-label, Gainsbourg and The Style Council), the sunny atmosphere: there are no downsides! For the album Agent Secret they got help from Jean-Louis Polumbo of Rinôçerôse - you might know them from the song Cubicle, that is used in an iPod-commercial, or dancefloor-hits like Mes Vacances à Rio or Le Rock Summer. A compilation album with their 'guitaristic house' was released last month.

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