Description
2023 repress. Reissue, originally released in 1982.
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. Silence & Wisdom — the duo”s 1982 debut — is a series of musical vignettes, like the score of an unrealized arthouse film. Blending processed guitars, sheets of synthesizers, echo-ey pianos, and washed-out vocal snippets to surprisingly varied effect, the album is recommended for fans of
Durutti Column and
Virginia Astley”s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (1983).
