North London alt-indie duo Blue Violet invite you to an intimate evening show performing songs from their second album ‘Faux Animaux’. The album highlights the ironies of human behaviour and how the society we have built is leading us further and further away from our natural, animalistic instincts. The band want you to embrace the animal within…don your best leopard print, animal ears or anything “Faux Animaux’ (fake animal) themed.Album 2 was recorded in Bristol’s J&J studios with Bat For Lashes and Hannah Peel producer/ mixer TJ Allen, ‘Faux Animaux’ is a unified and sophisticated update of modern British alt-pop, drifting from sizzling space disco to stunning, swirling cinematic vistas. On 25th January at The Grace, they will showcase Faux Animaux alongside songs from their first LP Late Night Calls, produced by Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Marianne Faithfull).

In April, Blue Violet shared lead single ‘Boogie Shoes’, a grainy glam stomp aimed midway between Queens Of The Stone Age and St Vincent. This was followed by ‘Imagine Me’; amid dark 80s electro-rock tones akin to a more seductive Depeche Mode, the track portraits a lustful temptress – groupie, cougar, stalker or lovelorn loner – frustrated that the sexual encounter she so meticulously plots is over in a flash. ‘Survival’ followed; a gentle paean channelling Metric, Mazzy Star, Cigarettes After Sex and Julee Cruise. Most recent single ‘Barefoot On The Seine’, is a schizophrenic dispatch from the edges of a Parisian riot, its verses lost in graceful Gallic romance and its choruses, grunge rock eruptions all, righteous calls to arms in support of essential personal freedoms.
On the album ‘Faux Animaux’, Blue Violet continue their exploration of rich electronic avenues inspired by Calvi, St Vincent, Radiohead, Bowie, recent Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Twin Peaks. With their songwriting as sublime as ever, they’ve become one of the most enthralling underground propositions of the age. 

Blue Violet took to the stage in March to join The Gaslight Anthem during various shows at London’s Roundhouse,  and, as they’ve shown festival crowds this summer, ‘Faux Animaux’ is set to usher in their own glory days. It’s a stunning amalgam of modernism and melody that spotlights not just humankind’s failings and fakery but its leaders’ too. “The fake animals could be seen as the powers that be, leading us down paths that result in us ignoring our more natural instincts, often making decisions without our permission,” says Sam.

Quietly, a beast awakens…