Double LP
They're back again! The Deux Filles story seems to have been told a few times now, but bears repeating once more for the sake of a mythology that seems to grow year on year... The project of Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, both former members of an early incarnation of The The, Deux Filles was a concept based on the conceit of having been created by two orphaned French girls who, united by tragic circumstance, decided to make a kind of ethereal, avant-folk record coloured with samples and intermittent vocals. As improbable as the notion was, the music is astonishingly moving and art-orientated, a haunting mix of Another Green World-ornateness, Durutti Column sensitivity and Virgina Astley Sunday morning pastoralism. Two records were released, the first in 82, the second a year later in 83, and Dark Entries has again collected them together as a single two-disc set. Funny how the power and influence of some records seems to grow outside of the light, which is exactly what has happened with Deux Filles, a name we seem to reference every other week in relation to some new emergent idea or sound. File alongside Flaming Tunes are the most influential act of the 80s who no-one cared existed at the time? I've certainly made more outrageous claims.
