You make me want to measure stars in the backyard

How they’ve escaped much attention in four years of subtly illumining the New York underground is beyond me, but the sounds of Brooklyn’s Au Revoir Simone are really something to behold.

Slender and graceful looking, the three girls that make up the band could easily populate the pages of Vogue, but here is a photogenic magic tied in with truly sentimental poetry. Beautiful electronic flourishes and subtle tempos lay behind Erika Foster’s gently melancholic vocals, and the myth that great female beauty causes a) madness or b) vacuousness is consummately slain.

Simone’s second LP, The Bird of Music (5 March), rises and falls with dulcet profundity. Feminine beauty and poetic substance, electronic music was made for it.

NJ

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