Sunday, August 5, 2012

Breton



The background: Breton are an inscrutable bunch of musicians and award-winning indie film-makers with, we are told, "cutting-edge video and sound design work under their belts" for the likes of Temper Trap, Penguin Prison and Tricky. They're so inscrutable they don't just live in south-east London, they have a "base" there, a former bank known as BretonLABS, where these multi-instrumentalist, multimedia types work on their music and audio-visuals, and do remixes for the likes of Local Natives, Chapel Club and Maps & Atlases. When they do venture out of BretonLABS, it is to perform shows shrouded in black hoods, lit only by the glow of their homemade, self-shot movies, which are cut and edited live by their touring-only fifth member as the four musicians play, variously, guitars, bass, synths, drums and laptops to create an intriguing sort of dubsteppy but poppy art-rock-cum-cinematic electronica.