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Les Pommes de Lune
La Revolution des Lutins / Le Plus Fort - 7"
Snowflake - 2024
Michael Panontin
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Pere Noel arrived early this year, leaving us this nifty little Christmas gift by Les Pommes de Lune. The Montreal five-piece, whose last missive you may recall was a swell cover of Christine Delaroche's long-forgotten 1967 b-side 'Une fleur', issued this seven-inch as part of Snowflake Records' long-running Christmas Singles Club.
'La Revolution des Lutins' - the group's first original committed to wax - is a catchy collision of freakbeat and ye-ye that belies its more subversive intentions. In fact, on the back cover is Les Pommes' manifesto, a half-serious, half-tongue-in-cheek take on the White Panthers' ten-point manifesto, demanding (translated from French) "revolution through a total assault on the corrupt consumer culture by necessary means". That wish list includes "psychedelic beat music [and] wassailing guitars" but also "justice and freedom from worry and war" and "free technology from the greed creeps!".
Les Pommes de Lune no doubt get their street cred from guitarist Daniel Fiocco (ex-Les Sequelles) and bassist/singer Gaven Dianda (the Saffron Sect), both of whom have spent many years in the city's endlessly fertile sixties garage/psych scene. "We've been amassing gear for a while, perhaps a decade or two," Dianda told CM. "Daniel's created a mini-studio in his basement where we rehearse, we've got revox tape machines and tube compressors and weird old reverb tanks and old German echo units and such, and both Antoine [drummer Antoine Binetter Mercier] and Sylvain [keyboardist Sylvain Arsenault] record sound as a profession."
Add to all that Charlie Houle-belanger, whose singing perfectly captures that mix of teenage innocence and effortless Gallic cool of 1960s Paris, and it's not hard to see why Les Pommes de Lune have been blasting out of my speakers for the past couple of years. ('La Revolution des Lutins' was pressed up on white wax in a very limited run of just 300 copies, so best not to wait for Santa to arrive before picking up your copy.)
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