Las Aves

Las Aves returned in 2019 with ‘You Need A Dog’, ‘A Change Of Heart’ and happy-hardcore-spattered pop bop ‘Worth It’. The singles rep the band’s second album succinctly; abrasive pop wielding a story of love, no matter how diluted in sincerity. This time, it’s self-love. Lyrically, lead-vocalist Géraldine Baux speaks on experience; ‘When I was young, I used to think, that my body defined me, I couldn’t stand to look in the mirror, there was always too much of me’ while musically these words saunter with firecracker 808s toward the launch of the metallic-pink-daubed tones of the full and unashamedly bombastic chorus.   

The trio’s acclaimed first album “Die In Shanghai”, produced by Dan Levy of the Franco-Finnish duo The Dø, made a brash and lasting mark on the somewhat well-behaved and isolated pop scene. The outfit’s hybrid of happy-hardcore and pop was illustrated through a series of clips following groups of girls across the globe, including the memorable hit ‘N.E.M’, which followed the lifestyle of a group of Peckham-ites. 

Since their debut, ‘the white birds’ have migrated all over Europe, playing stages at The Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City, Sziget Festival, Eurockéennes, and Vielles Charrues, as well as in China – true to their entrance-LP’s namesake – where they’ve showcased gung-ho guitars, electronic cavalcades and futuristic R&B in their live sets.

Then, for the last year, Las Aves have immersed themselves in deep hibernation, in the crevices of a Parisian studio. Now, they return, emanating from glittery-pink waters, littered with silvery screws and weightless steel fragments, to take on – quite radically, like three cast-iron cupids – the theme of love.