When you’re a French Electric-Pop Club member like M83’s Anthony Gonzalez is, there are a few rules you need to obey to the letter, lest you get your French Electro-Pop ass kicked out of the French Electro-Pop Club. (It’s pretty darn desirous, by the way, to remain a part of this club for as long as possible, because it’s the only one in which the club motto reads: “the cheesier the better.”) Chief among these governing rules is the one stating that you need to “get some girl to sing some spacey shit over spacey stuff.” For M83, that girl was Morgan Kibby, co-writer and cool crooner on such annoyingly 80s Saturdays = Youth (TMT Review) jams as “Kim & Jessie.”
But now, Gonzalez’s ticket to brunchtime White Russians in a Hotel Lobby with the dudes from Air is in some serious jeopardy, as Kibby has recently announced that she’s stepping out from behind the synths and vocal reverbs to unveil her own project, dubbed White Sea, complete with a primer EP, This Frontier.
“While on tour with M83, I was exposed to so many new things,” Kibby said, sipping a White Russian. “When I returned home, I sat down and taught myself Pro Tools, and how to produce. I’ve really spent the last year figuring out what music I’m excited about making.” She singlehandedly conceived, recorded, and produced the majority of the EP, which her press agent assures me is chock-full of “disco bass lines, ’60s spaghetti westerns, and the envelope-pushing work of Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks.” But then again, that missive also goes on to say that the thing “defies categorization,” so hey. Anything goes?
This Frontier is being released oh-so confidently/independently/digitally on October 5. In the meantime, you check out a remix Kibby recently did of School of Seven Bells’ “Dust Devil” over at her MySpace page. Stay tuned for tourdates and a complete tracklist. And if you’re M83, stay tuned for the wrath of Air.
• White Sea: http://www.myspace.com/whiteseamusic
• M83: http://www.ilovem83.com
