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"Luminous, poetic and radical", C.A.R. Is the new project of Chloé Raunet, singer of former London coldwave band Battant. She now writes, composes and produces on her own.
Her first ep 'Laika' (remixed by Timothy J. Fairplay, Krikor and Discodeine) is cosmic pop at its best. She also collaborates: the vocals and lyrics on Gessafelstein's debut album 'Aleph' were hers and she is currently working with Ivan Smagghe on some leftfield dance-ish tracks (Rebolledo has licensed one of these remixes for his forthcoming compilation).
C.A.R's first album will be out for the Indian Summer (preceded by the already cult 'Idle Eyes'). As a teaser, the Ten Steps Up seven inch is an retro-futurist ode to sixties girl groups. It is backed by a punk Ivan Smagghe edit of the raging "Rotten" and the It's A Fine Line produced "Spitfire": an eternal electronic christmas, snow or sun.
Live wise, she supported Gesaffelstein on his European tour and has also opened for Cat Power at the Paris Olympia. Her music has been picked up by Hermes and the Hyeres Fashion Festival, where she'll be playing alongside Jaakko Eino Kalveli & Chloe Howl, Vogue Magazine making a cover-mount cd of their performances.As one half of Latete Atoto, C.A.R .also has a fortnightly show on London's uber-cool, ICA linked NTS Radio (alongside the likes of Trevor Jackson) and she plays records around London.
Her universe is a red-hot & cold paradox, a battered dodge supercharger finding its way between clair-obscur allegories and the cold sensuality of melancholy. Electronic experiments are backed with ghostly punk bass lines, icy synths balanced on heartbeat drums. As with her almost short story-like lyrics, C.A.R's music sits on her own edge, between realism and dreams, pure pop and acquired taste.
Not a bad place to be, not a bad place to meet.