One Little Indie: Blanche As A Name
Nov 21, 2012
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Bleeding Gold Records’ new 7” single from French duo Blanche As A Name is beautifully brooding, dark pop music in the vein of Depeche Mode but with a distinctly sweeter undertone. Both songs on the record, “Frost” and “Like A Lake,” are taken from the band’s digital EP, Ravens. The former finds the band crooning, “I wanna freeze to death” not unlike one would expect Morrissey to sing such a line, while the latter exudes instrumental minimalist pleasures with male and female vocals intertwining in minor-key melancholy. A third download-only track, “Crossing the Sign,” which is unique to this release, breaks the depressed cycle somewhat in a chiming guitar-driven slice of male/female vocal-drenched pop, wherin the duo drops its affectations and harmonizes to wonderful effect.
There is not much out there to be found about Blanche As A Name, biographically-speaking. While they sing in English, any press information available is in French, and even with the wonders of Google Translate, the duo’s names still remain a mystery (hence the incorrect pronoun usage above). But if the tunes on this single are any indication, you’ll be sure to know their names soon enough. (blancheasaname.bandcamp.com/)
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November 23rd 2012
2:15am
The name’s popularity might be related to aesthetic concepts current at the time, whereby “a skin white as milk” was considered as an ultimate mark of female beauty. Such idealised depictions of beautiful women - of beautiful princesses in particular - are attested in in numerous works of prose and poetry of this period. -954-691-1102
December 19th 2012
11:03pm
I heard that Blanche As A Name preparing a new album in 2013. Someone knows something else?
December 20th 2012
2:00pm
hey, where did you get this confidential information that only Blanche as a Name knows?:)
indeed, we’d like to prepare our first album. We have some new songs, it’s just a matter of time (recording them, mixing them, release them).
thanks for your support!!
sebastien and bénédicte from BaaN
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2:12pm
From a medieval French nickname meaning “white, fair”. This name and its cognates in other languages are ultimately derived from the Germanic word blanc.
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