La Petite Rouge, a young girl from Germany is writing songs better suited for UK clubs, the sunrise over fresh cut grass or dim-lit alleyways. Bloody hell Beggars, sign her up already!
Sometimes you get lucky when you’re working in the music industry. Sometimes somebody tips you off, gives you the nod in the right direction or just puts a pink CD in a see-through sleeve on your desk without any further comment. A lot of the time the music you listen to is ok. Then there’s the flood of rubbish crap (a lot of it is commercially successful, you know) or the stuff you really wouldn’t put on your record player, but you know what purpose it serves and you know that there’s an audience for it, so it’s ok. Rarely, there’s that golden moment when you are hooked from the first second.
Then again, it’s even rarer that you can keep listening to a couple of songs for weeks and weeks without getting tired of it. This happened with a few songs I got from La Petite Rouge. And I’m still not at the point where I want to bin the CD. I keep running around telling friends about her. Playing the CD to people or handing them a copy. On there the young German sounds a lot like the best kind of bedroom producers out there. But what I love even more, is how she recreates the same kind of innocence and deepness in a simple set-up. The session is exactly what the music should look like. Dark but not haunting, intimate but not exclusive. Well, it’s just pretty damn good!
