The elegant analog and spacey pop universe of LE SUPERHOMARD that they made clear on the marvelous “Meadow Lane Park”, and the audiovisual esthetic the do up so well, has not been overlooked in the media or the public in general, as confirmed by their intense tour that went through countless European festivals and countries in over 30 days. In Spain, they were recently in the Bilboloop Festival, and soon they will be performing in Madrid and Barcelona. They have opened for bands like PARCELS, ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE and THE STRANGLERS. But the cherry on top of this amazing collection of dates goes to the man who was once the lead singer of THE JAM, Paul Weller. 

Last year, Weller chose his ten favorite songs of 2018 for UNCUT, and he included among them “Black Diamond” by LE SUPERHOMARD. But it seems like their musical chemistry doesn’t end there, and he himself has asked the French band to open for his shows in Germany, Holland, and Belgium, at the end of May and the beginning of June. This is all further proof that what LE SUPERHOMARD has to offer is one of the most interesting things to come out in the last year in Europe, and it is an opportunity to celebrate their virtues on the stage, which we will be able to check out in these parts soon enough.

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Here at Elefant, we are welcoming the new year with two parties starring the French group LE SUPERHOMARD. This coming January 25, in Sala El Sol, with doors opening at 9:00pm, we will have three bands who represent three very different sounds that are part of the palette of sounds of our label.

 NOS MIRAN are one of the best new groups of last year. Sergio Rodríguez and María Quintana have developed, on their first full-length, “Todo Se Repite”, a personal sound, with a foundation of electronic pop and dreamy, introspective lyrics. We have already said almost everything there is to say about LINDA GUILALA. It will be a great opportunity to see their solid live show, which already has an incredible repertoire, after having travelled halfway around the world with their singles for labels in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. We are really excited to hear these new songs on stage, where they will continue to maintain that perfect balance between melody and noise, energy and evocation. Finally, we will have the opportunity to see live, for the first time in Madrid, LE SUPERHOMARD. The French band practices a kind of analog pop, following the tradition of bands as important as STEREOLAB, BROADCAST, NEU! and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with an omnipresent pop/lounge spirit. We are so curious about what it will be like to see this big moment for such a unique group, where fantasy and audiovisual esthetic is an important part of the c [ Read more ]

LE SUPERHOMARD continue taking songs off their marvelous and one of a kind “Meadow Lane Park”. Now it is time for the Digital Single for “SDVB”, which is otherwise known as “Sweet Dark Velvet Blues”, a song that shows off so many of the qualities that make LE SUPERHOMARD such a special group so full of personality, relating them somehow to groups like STEREOLAB and BROADCAST. Yes, because the analogical drones are here, the roboticized melodies with echoes of KRAFTWERK and FAUST, the dreamy voices making the oneiric feeling even stronger… And there is new proof of their creativity in a video that gives us an absolutely incredible trip through time, mixing cinematographic techniques, collage and animation, stop-motion and 3D. Because what Pooley (Woom Studio) is doing with these videos for the French group deserves a separate mention. Or even better, a course in the school of cinematographic animation.

To complete this release, we are recovering two instrumental tracks from an old, out-of-print EP, “The Pomegranate Tree EP”. Two new gestures of sonorous fantasy. “The Pomegranate Tree” itself transports us to colorful, elegant, romantic countrysides, just over a minute and a half, while “September 9” goes for lyricism, strings, melancholy. All of this within the framework of their unique auditory experience, full of textures, synthesizers and impossible melodies.

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“Meadow Lane Park” made it clear that there is more to LE SUPERHOMARD than inspiration. What versatility. The ease with which they play with styles, the way the move from the most psychedelic, martial kraut-rock to synth-pop and the most addictive euro-disco, makes them one of the juiciest options to appear on the European scene recently. That is why their joining forces with Xavier Boyer, the singer from TAHITI 80, to release this Single called “Domino” is such wonderful news.

Christophe Vaillant (LE SUPERHOMARD) and Xavier himself have been friends for many years, so it is only natural that the latter suggested celebrating the release of LE SUPERHOMARD’s first album with a two-song collaboration, the above-mentioned “Domino” and “Gentle Wind (The American Spring)”. And what can come out of such a collaborationcategoría A couple of undeniable hits. Disco-funk with electro touches, ROOSEVELT like outpourings, Xavier’speculiar voice accompanied by LE SUPERHOMARD’s electro-pop elegance, luminous choruses, marvelous string arrangements… Two songs that were being given away with a CD that came with a special edition of the album released in Japan and that is now going to be available on the rest of the planet as an exquisite 500-copy numbered-limited-edition 7” white vinyl piece, with a trademark video, another esthetic and geometric fantasy, by Pooley (Woom Studio). Don’t miss it! [ Read more ]

“Meadow Lane Park” is the first full-length album from the French quintet LE SUPERHOMARD, after releasing a few EPs on the Japanese label Rallye and the British label Megadodo, and after the advance Single “Springtime”, released with Elefant Records. This is an album that, right from the cover and the titles of some of the songs, shows us its bucolic vocation. Just put on the song that opens the album, “In The Park”, and we can see that the landscapes they show us are injected with acid, flooded with stardust, with lysergic caresses, sweet and tremendously pleasant. We haven’t heard anything like this since that “The Noise Made By People” by BROADCAST.

The thing is, under the play of the synthesizers, under the psychedelic-style muted bases, strings and guitars aimed at lounge, they create an irresistible atmosphere that the album manages in a very special way. We already knew about the danceable roughness of “Springtime”. “Door After Door” tells us how strawberry fields would be if they had been discovered today, or how the dreaminess of Syd Barret would be. But “Paper Girl” sets up the first game: with the same elements we find a song that could have been a huge hit by ABBA arranged by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane. “Karaoking” develops a more classical concept of a song, with a piano presiding and arrangements that remind us somehow of the goldsmithing of another dis [ Read more ]

While we are patiently waiting for the release of the debut of album (“Meadow Lane Park”) by the French group LE SUPERHOMARD on Elefant Records, and after that lysergic kraut-pop attraction that was their first advance Single – the 7”, pink vinyl, “Springtime EP” – we are advancing you another little appetizer for the album. “Paper Girl” offers us the poppiest and most immediate side of a group that is capable of bringing together the melodic effectiveness of ABBA, the rhythmic martial tones of STEREOLAB and the cosmic vision of BROADCAST, all in the same song. The sonic fantasy they unleash in their compositions is shown off well in this song, and also in the video that goes with it. We are amazed at the overwhelming imagination represented in images that this video gives us – a digital cut/paste with surprising results that even goes beyond the amazing work Pooley (Woom Studio) did in the video for “Springtime”, which was marvelous. And for the exclusive B side of this Digital Single, we have a remix by CUCUMBER (musical project from the multifaceted Pooley) who share LE SUPERHOMARD’sdevotion to all things vintage, and to organic and hallucinogenic sounds from the 60s and the 70s. The result is the other side of the same coin: more martial and hypnotic, maintaining its accessible spirit, playing with other cards from a similar deck, which in this case take “Paper Girl” to a spacey [ Read more ]

We are very proud to be able to announce a new group signed to Elefant Records. LE SUPERHOMARD are a french quintent led by Christophe Vaillant, a musician with a history of mod-styled formations, like the band THE STRAWBERRY SMELL and PONY TAYLOR, and who in 2015 began a solitary project that his brother Olivier later joined and which has continued taking shape to become what it is today (Christophe Vaillant,Julie Big,Benoit Pithon,Laurent Elfassy andThomas Rivello), named in honor of a scene from the movie “Let’s Not Get Angry” by Georges Lautner. Throughout 2017 and 2018 they released a few EPs for the Japanese label Rallye Records and the British label Megadodo. Their music has been played on the BBC by Gideon Coe, Amy Lamé or Stuart Maconie with some very nice columns in the press. At Elefant, we are excited to give you an advance of the imminent arrival of an LP coming at the beginning of 2019, with this Single that will be the perfect appetizer and introduction to the group.

“Springtime EP” includes two songs from the album and two previously unreleased songs, on a 500-copy numbered-limited-edition pink 7” vinyl. “Springtime”, one of the songs from the album, opens the Single: it’s martial, spacey synth-pop, between Étienne Dahoand THE HUMAN LEAGUE, with Julie Big’s precious voice. But don’t be fooled – “Springtime” is a great single that showcases the band’s [ Read more ]