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Les Fauves (“the Wild Beasts”) were a French artistic movement characterised by their strident use of colour and their wild brushstrokes. Substitute keyboards for “brush” and you have a pretty good description of the frantic Italian indie electropop band who share this name. They scatter about multiple influences - the Jesus and Mary Chain, Human League and Arctic Monkeys for starters - while ‘Novara’ is bubblegum Blondie.
I get the feeling they may be trying too hard. They have challenging song titles (‘The Heroin Melody’, with its waltz-time wooziness), strange names (the singer is Pap Sfroocer and “Paolo the Lover” plays keyboards) and a fierce dedication to the decade in which they were all born (the 80s). ‘In The Fallout Shelter’ is post-punk-funk while the squidgy synths of ‘Twister Twist’ could have come out of some 80s Sheffield nightclub. I hated the cabaret clowning of ‘Freak Riot’, enjoyed the sleazy electro-dance moves of ‘Fava Go Go Dancer’ and was indifferent to the rest. ‘Fava…’ sounds most like their earlier record ‘Our Dildo Can Change Your Life’ that was sex-club sordid enough to get mentioned by James Jam in the NME. If that had been the template for the album, it might have emerged as more distinctive than it actually is.
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