La Femme

The Parisian collective La Femme combines its French heritage with sounds from across the globe in surprising, appealing ways. On their early EPs and award-winning 2013 debut album Psycho Tropical Berlin, they delivered an ear-catching blend of krautrock, 60s surf, psych rock, coldwave, and classic French pop, and managed to expand their horizons even further on 2016's dark, ambitious Mystère. Despite – or perhaps because of – their singular style, La Femme scored top ten hits in their homeland, and remained as eclectic as ever on 2021's Paradigmes and the following year's Teatro Lucido, a love letter to Spanish and South American cities and musical styles. In 2023 La Femme released Paris-Hawaï, which saw them incorporate Hawaiian music into their sound. In 2024 the band released Rock Machine, their first album written entirely in English. Composed over the last few years during various tours around the world, this new LP was strongly inspired by a string of dates in the USA.