Deux Filles
Double Happiness
Our Swimmer
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2022
LP
16.99
WELLE112
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Tracklist
1Our English Friends
2Piroette
3The Third Movement
4Play Room
5Starboard She Said
6Los Estrallas (The Stars)
7Albert the Mud Fish
8Who Art in Heaven
9Shackleford Breeze
102 Blind 2 See
11Zazinthos
12Air Tube
13Little Brown Jig
14Tongues
15Shalama
16The Sun on the Sea
17Interlude
18The Snow Falls and the Village is Overflowing with Children
19Double Happiness

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.