La Femme (band)
| La femme | |
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 La Femme performed in 2014 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Biarritz , France |
| Genre (s) | Psychedelic rock , cold wave , punk , yéyé , surf |
| founding | 2010 |
| Website | lafemmemusic.com |
| Founding members | |
| Marlon Magnée | |
| Sacha Got | |
| Current occupation | |
| Marlon Magnée | |
| Sacha Got | |
| Sam Lefevre | |
| Noé Delmas | |
| Lucas Nunez | |
| Clémence Quélennec | |
La Femme is a French Psychedelic - band .
history
La Femme was founded in Biarritz by keyboardist Marlon Magnée and guitarist Sacha Got . The rest of the band members joined later, including bassist Sam Lefevre, drummer Noé Delmas and Lucas Nunez from Paris. In 2010 the band gave themselves the name "La Femme". The band members became aware of the future singer Clémence Quélennec via the Internet. Other members are Clara Luciani, Jane Peynot and Marilou Chollet.
La Femme released their first EP in 2010, followed by the EP Le podium # 1 in 2011, which was produced during the “Festival des Inrocks”. A third EP called La Femme was released in February 2013. The debut album Psycho Tropical Berlin was released on April 8, 2013. In February 2014 the band was awarded the French Victoires de la Musique prize in the “Album révélation” category. On September 2, 2016, the group released their second album Mystère.
style
The band's music can be described as synthetic and hypnotic, influenced by Velvet Underground , Kraftwerk and a mixture of cold wave , punk , yéyé and surf music .
Discography
Albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 BE W
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 CH
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| 2013 | Psycho Tropical Berlin Disque Pointu |
FR33 (20 weeks) FR |
- | - |
First published: April 8, 2013
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| 2016 | Mystère Disque Pointu |
FR9  (16 weeks)FR |
BE W38 (10 weeks) BE W |
CH74 (1 week) CH |
First published: September 2nd, 2016
Sales: + 50,000 |
EPs
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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FR
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BE W
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CH
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| 2013 | Hypsoline Disque Pointu |
FR153 (1 week) FR |
- | - |
First published: February 17, 2013
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More EPs
- 2010: La femme
- 2011: Le podium # 1
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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FR
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BE W
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CH
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| 2016 | Sphynx Mystère |
FR103 (2 weeks) FR |
- | - |
First published: March 18, 2016
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| Où va le monde? Mystère |
FR134 (4 weeks) FR |
- | - |
First published: June 3, 2016
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| The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement: | |||||
| 2013 | Sur la planche Psycho Tropical Berlin |
FR107 (5 weeks) FR |
- | - |
Chart entry: April 20, 2013
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| 2016 | Septembre Mystère |
FR170 (2 weeks) FR |
- | - |
Chart entry: September 3, 2016
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more publishments
- 2011: From Tchernobyl With Love
- 2012: Télégraphe
Awards for music sales
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
gold |
 platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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France (SNEP)
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gold1
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- | 50,000 | snepmusique.com |
| All in all |
gold1
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swell
- ↑ 20 minutes: Le groupe psyché-punk sort un premier album attendu depuis deux ans par leurs fans (French)
- ↑ Magic rpm: Psycho Tropical Berlin de La Femme ( Memento from April 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
- ↑ http://www.lesvictoires.com/ (French)
- ↑ Brain Magazine: La femme - Femme publique (interview) (French)
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: FR BEW CH