The band are heading out on the road for their most extensive tour yet, check out the tour dates below.
If you haven’t heard French Miami yet, enjoy your last few minutes of peace. Once their songs get inside your head, they start a permanent loop and you will wake up and go to bed singing along. The only way out of this musical addiction is sleep deprivation.
French Miami’s raucous live shows use rock music structures to hold together more technical musical ideas. Jagged guitars, pulsing synths, and precise stop-start rhythms launch seductive refrains that have forced the crowd’s feet off the floors in post-punk singalong deliriums from SXSW to CMJ. The first time you catch their live show you might be shocked to discover there’s no bassist as their ménage a guitar-synth takes the low end as far as it can go with the head-nodding precision of a mathematical equation.
How is this possible? It helps that they’re multi-taskers. Onstage, French Miami show off the technical cred behind their sound by moving non-stop and playing an average of two instruments apiece, usually at the same time. Singer Jason Heiselmann slides effortlessly between baritone guitar and keyboards while delivering vocal melodies in memorable strands too gritty to be called pop, too irresistibly catchy not to be. Multi-instrumentalist Roland Curtis is usually playing a guitar with one hand and a synth with the other with freakish proficiency. Meanwhile, drummer Chris Crawford does precisely what a drummer should do by anchoring their sound in a minimalist beat, knowing when to let loose and when not to.
This was no easy live show to wrangle onto a record, but French Miami knew the right man for the job. Phil Manley (Trans Am, Fucking Champs) committed their self-titled debut - a unique blend of prog, post-punk, and synth-art rock - to eternity. The album waxes nostalgic on anthemic 90s sounds from Archers of Loaf and Trans Am, tastes the angular grooves of Battles and Holy Fuck, and throws in the earnestness of the Boss and Fugazi to balance the sweet with the sour. The result is terse, jagged rhythms fueled by great hooks fulfilled in noisy abandon.
"San Fran psychopaths craft skull-collapsing post-punk, wiry (and Wire-y) guitars twitching over steady chugging rhythms." - Rolling Stone
"Having the traditional two arms doesn't restrict French Miami from showing off by pounding their heaving math-rock intricacy through two instruments at once. Each. Inevitably, the local musos cream themselves at such a sight, but this trio have the ability to get you throwing plenty of irregular shapes on the dancefloor too." - NME - UK
"Their electric kool-aid post-punk is stilted by Telecasters winding up the same kind of prickly riffs that bands like Battles and Fiasco usually turn into proggy freak outs, but instead of going all aggro, French Miami end up sounding like a Guy Picciotto band that wouldn't need SPF1000 at the beach." - RCRD LBL
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Download 'God Damn Best' taken from their self-titled debut album: HERE
French Miami Tour Dates:
(more to be announced)
08/06 – Portland, OR @ Berbati’s Pan w/ Boy Eats Drum machine & Sharpening Markers
08/08 – Anacortes, WA @ The Brown lantern w/ By Sunlight
08/09 – Seattle, WA @ The Sunset Tavern w/ By Sunlight
08/10 – Spokane, WA @ The Empyrean w/ City We Live in & Pegasus Dream
08/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Burt’s Tiki Lounge w/ Seashell Radio
08/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Lounge w/ Tasso
08/13 – Modesto, CA @ Copper Rhino
08/14 – Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective
08/16 – Denver, CO @ The Hi Dive
08/17 – Lawrence, KS @ The Replay w/ Rooftop Vigilantes
08/18 – St. Louis, MP @ Cicero's
08/19 – Chicago, IL @ Ronny’s Bar
08/24 – Detroit, MI @ PJ’s Lagerhouse
08/25 – Newport, KY @ The Southgate House w/ Swear Jar & The Atriums
08/26 – Cleveland, OH @ The Happy Dog
08/27 – Akron, OH @ Annabells
08/28 – Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio
09/01 – Philadelphia, PA @ M Room
09/06 – New York, NY @ The Cake Shop
09/07 – Washington, DC @ The Red and Black
09/15 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
09/23 – Tucson, AZ @ Hotel Congress
09/29 – Monterey, CA @ Joses’s Underground w/ Boyz IV Men
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