TARTINE DE CLOUS - Compter les dents CD Female-Fronted The Bitters "cave pop" is

The Bitters "cave pop" is doomy as it is infectious

Ike Yard sits between the sinewy proto-body music of the Neue Deutsche Welle and the shattered grooves of their No Wave peers in New York

Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again

Still at the band's heart

It’s violent

TARTINE DE CLOUS - Compter les dents CD Female-Fronted The Bitters "cave pop" isliner notes by Alasdair Roberts (musician) : It begins with a shoebox of mysterious provenance, full of recordings from the Vende department on Frances western seaboard: songs of love and war, life and death, played out on land and sea. Songs passed down and sung by ordinary men and women, gracefully delivered with the poetic economy which unites the folk song of all peoples. Next it takes a group of contemporary musicians to make selections from this