Deux Filles

Nearly 30 years since they disappeared from public view, Deux Filles' genius pair of LPs reappears in the reissue stream.

The enigmatic creation of Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd-Tucker pulled the wool over pretty much everyone's eyes with their creamy ambient pop back in 1982-83. Ostensibly, Deux Filles appeared to be a pair of young French girls brought together by tragic circumstances to make a heady, psychedelic sort of avant-garde post punk woven with sampled dialogue and occasionally their own vocals.

In truth it was the caprice of former child actor and soon to be film soundtrack composer Fisher Turner - a former product of Jonathan King's studios - and his pal Lloyd-Tucker, who took the concept as far as dressing in drag for the album sleeves and even playing a gig in full disguise, without anyone ever cottoning on. While that makes for a brilliant backstory, something that's sorely missing nowadays when even Burial is "outed" by the Sun, the music itself is utterly enchanting; 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗼-𝗲𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸. 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱!