News - Deux Furieuses Announce Debut Album And Stream New Track

The words ‘deux furieuses’ translate as ‘two furious’, female gender signified by the French spelling. Their fans in Russia fondly call them The Furies. ‘deux furieuses’ is an apt name for the impassioned duo (Ros Cairney - guitar and vocals, Vas Antoniadou - drums and vocals) whose music is fuelled by 21 Century hypocrisy, pro-democracy uprisings, fundamentalism and extremism, the denial of freedom of expression and rights for women. Their songs pull apart social injustice and cry out for change.

deux furieuses’ debut album Tracks of Wire draws inspiration from a wide range of artists who use their talents to explore and think: Hofesh Shechter’s thunderous dance/music performance ‘Political Mother’ about indoctrination, DV8’s uncomfortable, questioning physical theatre piece ‘Can We Talk About This?’ about multiculturalism, Aayan Hirsi Ali’s books on Islam and reformation, Yael Farber’s ‘fearless’ rape play ‘Nirbhaya’, PJ Harvey’s ‘Let England Shake’, Savages ‘Silence Yourself’. The duo’s riotous black-and-white hooded press shots a nod to the Parisian female activists of 1968, the original Sisters Of Perpetual Resistance.

Produced by Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey’s drummer and arranger), Tracks of Wire has moments of Harvey-esque raw exuberance. There’s the obvious riot girl influence, where seemingly rebellious abandonment meets an unstoppable desire to deliver a serious message. But whilst punk’s angry, visceral backbone is omnipresent, the songs are fleshed out with post-punk’s intelligence and articulation. 

It’s an album that is undoubtedly hard-hitting, but one with a positive, proactive message of fighting for change, wrapped in songs delivered in darker shades and rawer soundscapes.

Formed in 2013, the band have released three tracks:  Can We Talk About This?(2014), The Party of Shaitaan(2015) and Are We Sexy Enough?(2015) which collectively picked up coverage on Louder Than War, The Girls Are, Artrocker whilst at radio, John Kennedy [Radio X] has twice featured the duo as his Xposure Big One, more recently hailing them ‘Ones to Watch for 2016’ and asking them to play his club The Remedy; Tom Robinson selected them for his BBC Introducing Playlist in 2015 and Bella Union’s boss Simon Raymonde praised them on his Amazing Radio show.

Tracks of Wire was recorded at Bryn Derwen studio, Wales with producer Rob Ellis in August 2014 and was finally mixed in Nov 2015 by Mark Freegard [The Breeders] at Kyoti Studio, Glasgow. The album will be self-released digitally on 20 May. 

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