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ARTIST
DEUX FILLES
TITLE
Double Happiness
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
OUR SWIMMER
CATALOG #
WELLE 112LP
WELLE 112LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/26/2022
Reissue, originally released in 1983.
Deux Filles
was not, in fact, two girls despite what the group name and its elaborate hoax of a backstory suggest. No, they were not
Gemini Forque
and
Claudine Coule
, French women who met as teenagers under tragic circumstances and became fast friends, recording two albums together before disappearing into the ether. In reality, Deux Filles was
Simon Fisher Turner
and
Colin Lloyd Tucker
, a UK duo who first worked together in an early incarnation of
The The
. Straddling the line between experimental and pop, Turner was an actor and teen singing star who later composed soundtracks for the iconic queer filmmaker
Derek Jarman
while Tucker's career began as an engineer for the famed UK library music studio, De Wolfe, before forming experimental wave group
The Gadgets
. In Deux Filles, the duo found an outlet for their least commercial tendencies, combining lo-fi proto-dream-pop instrumentals with samples, tape experiments, ambient textures, and drum machines. Even in the vibrant, seemingly endless well of UK DIY, Deux Filles stand out.
Double Happiness
is the duo's second album, originally released in 1983 on their own imprint, Papier Maché. Full of meandering guitar and with a more ominous tone than the debut, the album is recommended for fans of
Durutti Column
and
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental
's
The Bridge
(1979).
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