DEUX FILLES Double Happiness

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Deux Filles was not, in fact, two girls despite what the group name and its elaborate hoax of a backstory suggest. No, they were not Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule, French women who met as teenagers under tragic circumstances and became fast friends, recording two albums together before disappearing into the ether. In reality, Deux Filles was Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, a UK duo who first worked together in an early incarnation of The The. Straddling the line between experimental and pop, Turner was an actor and teen singing star who later composed soundtracks for the iconic queer filmmaker Derek Jarman while Tucker’s career began as an engineer for the famed UK library music studio, De Wolfe, before forming experimental wave group The Gadgets. In Deux Filles, the duo found an outlet for their least commercial tendencies, combining lo-fi proto-dream-pop instrumentals with samples, tape experiments, ambient textures, and drum machines. Even in the vibrant, seemingly endless well of UK DIY, Deux Filles stand out. Double Happiness is the duo’s second album, originally released in 1983 on their own imprint, Papier Maché. Full of meandering guitar and with a more ominous tone than the debut, the album is recommended for fans of Durutti Column and Thomas Leer & Robert Rental’s The Bridge.

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Deux Filles
Double Happiness

1. A1 Our English Friends
2. A2 Piroette
3. A3 the Third Movement
4. A4 Play Room
5. A5 Starboard She Said
6. A6 Los Estrallas
7. A7 Albert the Mud Fish
8. A8 Who Art In Heaven
9. A9 Shackleford Breeze
10. A10 2 Blind 2 See
11. A11 Zazinthos
12. B1 Air Tube
13. B2 Little Brown Jig
14. B3 Tongues
15. B4 Shalama
16. B5 the Sun On the Sea
17. B6 Interlude
18. B7 the Snow Falls and the Village is Overflowing With Childr
19. B8 Double Happiness