Description:	Excellent 7 TRK CD EP, Self Released!
	Format:	CD single
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Self-Released
	Price:	£5.19
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5
...according to our Brian on 11 September 2008.

The French Quarter are a cool new Scots act and we've got their wonderful debut 'We're Not French' EP in on CD. I don't quite know how they manage to so brilliantly blend brittle new wave with early Explosions ITS style post rock drama - track 2 is very much in that style, all marching drums & hypnotic guitar building up to a buzzing little crescendo - and latter (evocative) period Dischord Records but they do, so well! Each track has this airy, sparse aura, a clean, refined sound that seems really refreshing. It's linear, minimal rock which at a stretch could be imagined as a marriage of Interpol & Pinback but the template here is merely streaked with some pleasing pastels at the moment, it's early days & they've kept it simple, drawing these 7 songs out tentatively. Impregnable, drifty vocals hover over pure chiming guitars, dense drums & looming bass and on some there's sweet strings and piano flourishes - there's plenty of space left beyond these tender atmospherics for this promising band to go WHEREVER they feel next! The closing track is a euphoric spacey number that wraps up an excellent debut effort. I strongly recommend this!!

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What their label says...

We’re Not French transcends The French Quarter beyond the typical new-band confines marked “one for the future” and slaps them squarely into the realms of brilliance

The French Quarter are steeped in the traditions of Scotland’s finest musical exponents. Engineered by one time Mogwai and Delgados producer Andy Miller, the Tillicoultry quartet’s debut EP We’re Not French is a dreamy, post-rocking daze of twinkling ivory and nimble guitar smothered in the kerosene growl of vocalist Frank Murray. Each number besieges the eardrums with military precision, building from the cautious cyclical rhythms of It’s The and Shed Away before exploding as an artillery of percussion during the breathless Hide. The record’s peak is the wondrous T2; a track that wails to the sound of aching chords and sobbing key chimes while strangling neck hairs with Murray’s tragic, paralysing narrative. A truly remarkable EP drenched with melodious ingenuity. [Billy Hamilton]