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Paris post-disco quintet have been described as 'The best thing to arrive in France since the abolition of the death penalty'. It’s time to replace laser beams and strobe lights with neon signs hanging on dodgey alleys and smokey cabarets, Madames et monsierus, here’s Poni Hoax.
Signed to Tiguersushi and produced by Joakim, this five man army of «jeunes gens modernes», bookworm musicians and extremely talented composers met ten years ago at the Jazz conservatory in Paris. Their ‘awesomely addictive’ sound - specially that of front man’s Nicholas Ker- whose “theatre-of-Cruelty performative quality to his voice’ reminds you of the film Cabaret, tackles an ambitious unique style that walks the thin line between a decadent Morrissey or an elegiac Jim Morrisson.
The symbiosis he shares with the band’s lead composer, Laurent Bardainne, can be equated with that formerly uniting Carl Barat and Pete Doherty with maturity on top. Arnaud Roulin (keyboard/bass), Nicolas Villebrin (guitar) and Vincent Taeger (drums), partners in crime and über-accomplished musicians who have co-oped with the gotha of French « variétés » (Feist, Romain Humeau, Dave! etc.).
Together they fuel the fire of an irridescent musical flame laced with infectious, nearly fatal melodies, remarking "Italo disco makes as much sense to me as Albanian windsurfing” (Dazed & Confused)
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‘Awesomely addictive’ - NME
‘Fucking amazing’ – DROWNED IN SOUND
‘electro pop band, friends with Franz...that sounds like a young Bowie teaming up with Heartbeat’ - MIXMAG
‘Fresh, original, and unpredictable throughout’ - XLR8R
‘likeability and enjoyment grow exponentially with each playing’ - URB
‘unprecedented… exceptional musical genius.’ - STATE OF THE ART
‘Containing more highs than a skyscraper sightseeing tour and Tetris Addictive… ‘- CLASH
‘Part disco, part new wave, very electronic, and with its fair share of guitar riffage, the album slides From one musical style to another with grand transitions that tend to include lots of cymbal crashes” - XLR8R
'a world where the sun never rises. It never stops raining and you shouldn’t leave the club because outside the dark is rising and neon is beautiful, right? – DAZED DIGITAL
The video for Poni Hoax “Antibodies” stresses me out. Subtle and beautiful though. Just watch’ - BIG STEREO
‘Super catchy hooks+ hummable melodies + basslines that stick like rice= Poni Hoax. The French did it again’ - MISSINGTOOF
Techno-disco from Paris, Barbés’ - ABITARE |
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