7" The Whale / Melody Maker, by Betty Ford Clinic / Close Up Records

7" The Whale / Melody Maker

by Betty Ford Clinic / Close Up Records

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	1.	The Whale 02:58		download
	2.	Melody Maker 01:43		download

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" Super groupe de Rennes optant pour un rock nerveux, lorgnant tout autant vers une power pop aux influences punk - pour les mélodies - que vers un hardcore hargneux mais toujours inventif.
Après un premier album autoproduit en 2007 et un changement de line up qui perdrait plus d'un rock critic, les cinq BFC reviennent très fort avec ce super simple enregistré au Black Box, fameux studio de la campagne angevine qui a vu paser devant sa console de nombreux trucs très cool (Shellac, Thugs, Cheval de Frise et plus récemment les Last Shadow Puppets dans un tout autre registre). C'est d'ailleurs le nouveau bassiste qui chante sur Melody Maker et c'est une réussite ! Super refrain dévastateur. Le 45t sort chez Close Up et annonce, je pense, un album à venir… " (Holden Brahms, 94 Miles à l'Heure, radio Canal B)

" Le groupe rennais a changé en peu de temps de chanteur, de bassiste mais il persévère dans l’excellence pop rock. Ce nouveau single lorgne vers l’Angleterre, terre de tous les fantasmes pour ces amoureux des Buzzcoks et des Undertones. A l’image des premiers Art Brut ou Pete & The Pirates, les Betty Ford dépoussièrent le genre et distillent en deux minutes des compositions entrainantes et entêtantes. La production est terrible, les arrangements de guitares des plus habiles. Le single pop du printemps " Kfuel.org

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released April 30, 2011

Recorded, produced and mixed by Peter Deimel at Black Box studio.
Mastered by Bob Weston and Jason Ward at Chicago Master Service.

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Betty Ford Clinic Paris, France

Authors of a constant musical holdup without masks, they don't run the highways of the institutional music. Betty Ford Clinic does not hesitate to send back the ball to Shangri-Las to Division of Laura Lee, Hot Snakes to Jay Reatard, Marked Men to Fury of The Headteachers, while getting distance from the references, to not fall into the trap of the useless copy. ... more

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