When French Films are made in Finland

French Films aren’t French or filmmakers. They’re a Finish band formed in 2010, whose first album (Imaginary Future) was released in 2011, but, in my opinion, 2013 is going to be Their Year, with capital letters. They're one of the 2013European Border Breakers Awards winners (a recognition to those new European bands that are achieving more importance out of their countries) and they're about to shoot a new LP, White Orchid, in April (clic here to watch a making-of clip).

What do they do? Their music has been described as a mix of garage spirit, surf rock, post punk and new wave pop... Wow! And though it sounds like a very complex recipe, believe me, their songs are really easy to swallow and digest. It’s music full of energy and sun light, and lyrics about youth, about the will to live, about dreams, about growing up and how to cope with growing up. It’s that kind of sound that makes your day, that charges your batteries.

Now, if you Google them you won’t find any website, but they’ve got a quite active Facebook page and a pretty much abandoned MySpace (how cute is that!). And if you search a bit closer, avoiding all the 100-French-films-you-can’t-miss websites (or 10, or 50, whatever), you can see how some top level music magazines are starting to talk about them. This is their moment, they are here and they’ll stay. Get used to their name and give them a listen. What else can I say? Relax. Enjoy.

What is out there?

Everything! Out there is every single thing! We just need to look for them. But I know we don't always have enough time to do it: we wake up, go to work or to study, eat something, go to work again, have a little "siesta" if we're lucky... and at the end of the day we always visit almost the same websites, read the same newspapers or talk with the same people. And then we're tired and we just wanna jump (or be dropped) on the sofa, watch a bit of telly or go to bed straight away. Here you'll find things that you're going to like, things that are gonna amaze you, things worth listening to, watching, looking at, reading, knowing... Let's talk about what's going on out there, not just the important stuff, but rather the odd, interesting, new stuff that's not so easy to come across.  Keep your eyes wide open!