news
05/09/11
Some more tracks now uploaded to our YouTube channel. Including International Lover, Information (featuring Etienne LeBeau AKA Jerome C. Rousseau on vox!), Hell On The Way and Dance Alone.
20/08/11
Check out our new 'video' for Lya Taboo on YouTube. We put it together and we think it came out pretty good. Go iMovie! .
01/01/11
Happy new year everybody! Riviera F are working on some new tunes! All will be reveiled soon!
27/09/10
Another City Another Plan, our new album is officially OUT! Buy a CD, or download from Tunes, Amazon and more...
26/09/10
One more day left to pre-order our album.. get in there!! It's officially out tomorrow. We're so excited we don't know what to do!! And also here's a brand new pic of us!
24/09/10
Oooh - punky Riv tune 'Pick Up Star' is getting a play and the album a plug on the fabulously entertaining celebrity gossip podcast The Crescent ('celebrity gossip gone wrong').
Listen! Be entertained! Funny 'No Parking' pix!'
22/09/10
Our favourite Frenchie boy and fabulous, super talented LA shoe designer Jerome C. Rousseau talking about his favourite music and name dropping Riviera F!! How cool!!! Check it out on yoox.com.
20/09/10
Heavy Sixer - Mondo evolvo, the Devo /Beach Boys /Eno influenced debut album by Kyle Pittman is out today on our label Germ Free Records.
Available for download on Amazon now! Exxxciting!!
17/09/10
Hmmm... got a basically good yet quite confused review for our album Another City
Another Plan from Popjustice... Well they do say the album is "quite
brilliant"...!
09/08/10
First review of our new album Another City Another Plan, out Sept 27! Here
it is all the way from Sweden!
Check check check it out!
Riviera F - "Another City, Another Plan" (album)
..."Talking Heads vs. Modern Talking, Kraftwerk Vs. Abba, High Heels Vs. Highlights, Euro Boys Vs. West End Girls, Blue Veins vs. White Skin ".
This is how the two girls of Riviera F describe their band and they pretty well hit the spot in both the general feeling and sound.
By making a hybrid of late 70s new wave / post-punk, early 80s minmal wave /
electro and the 00s electro clash, Riviera F has come up with their own sound.
It's cold, hard and melodic, and often high tempo. They blend mechanical and
monotonous synth-disco beats with noisy new wave guitars and visions of dark
rain soaked streets of London illuminated by car headlights and dim bar interiors
fills my mind's eye.
I have followed Riviera F Myspace in around four years myself, so more than half of the ten songs on this their debut album is already familiar to me. Here are among others you can find their cover of Martha and the Muffins song "Echo Beach" and other old favorites such as "Girls and Money", "Posing for the cameras", "Lya Taboo" (brilliant!) and "Dance to the Beat". The melancholy song "Dance Alone" re-introduces the saxophone in popmusic and a strong 80's vibe is all around ... Of the songs I have not heard before, "Take You Down" a clear favorite but the other songs are all pretty good as well.
Although Riviera F sometimes are close the limit on how much electric guitar I personally can handle, this is always saved by their brilliant sense of melodies filled with energy and attitude. This is a great album, well worth checking out! On http://www.rivieraf.co.uk/ you can listen to most songs from the album, and songs from their two previous EPs and singles-release (produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran).
By Johan Wejedal (www.synth.nu)
31/07/10
We are very excited about the new addition to our label Germ Free! Artist
Kyle Pittman AKA Heavy
Sixer will be joining our label and releasing his brand
new album Mondo Evolvo on Sept 20th.
Here's a little bit more info about him...
Heavy Sixer is the synth
conquered offspring of 'Adam
Heart' and 'The iLLiad' creator/front man Kyle
Pittman. Kyle is a filmmaker, musician and artist from rural Ohio, USA where
he has spent many years as an agoraphobic recluse who collects pop cans, masks
and VHS tapes. Initially created as a one off side project under the moniker
'Jocko Homo', Kyle was persuaded to re-release the Jocko Homo album 'Mondo
Evolvo' through the UK label 'Germ Free'.
As a concept album it should be listened to from start
to finish preferably blasted out as the background music to a cinematic gruesome
killing scene at a seedy nightclub, or down at the dark wood paneled basements
that reek of stale pot and porno sound stages hidden somewhere in suberban
middle America... Mondo Evolvo's sound is influenced by Eno, Beach Boys, Syd
Barrett, Devo, Bowie and Marc Bolan to name but a few and will include new
tracks and new album art.
Available as a digital release September 20th 2010.
22/06/10
Read our official press release for Another City Another Plan here..
Remember pop music when it was still magic? A mysterious, distant memory of a place you've never been to. This is Another City Another Plan, the sparkling debut from sultry Euro popsters Riviera F.
From the Pulp-esqe kitchen sink nightmare Hell On The Way, to the Abba meets Roxy Music (complete with sax solo) triumphant nostalgia of Dance
Alone, going all Hey-Jude-Winner-Takes-It-All at the end, this album sees Riviera F
bringing together their DIY bedroom punk spirit and mixing it all up with some carefully laid 90s beats and perfect pop sensibilities.
The more minimalist tracks such as Girls and Money and Posing
For The Cameras are dangerously haunting, and almost military-sounding with their structured hooks taking you on strange, edgy journeys of crunchy synths and cheap romance.
It's not all dark and moody. Dance to The Beat has its Divine and Bobby O influences scribbled in red lipstick all over its 5" heels and PVC leopardskin catsuit. And hey, even West End girls can sometimes be riot grrrls! Check out Kairo's dirrrty guitar on Pick
Up Star, all angular 70s new-wave bursting through the drum machine. More evidence of the dark pop influence of the late 70s and early 80s can be found when they re-visit Martha and the Muffins' new-wave classic Echo
Beach. The result is much more fierce than the original and surprisingly ravey.
Stylishly effortless Take You Down and the gloriously cinematic The
Last Time tell more tales of falling in love and inevitably falling apart. Lya
Taboo (named after a character in the Bowie-starring film Just A Gigolo) is all dancy and instantly catchy with harsh, spoken vocals and wonky analogue synths.
From faux Eastern European fantasies to low rent East London grimness, this is a beautiful, soulful and modern album that gets it spot on and makes you want to press REPEAT. Pop goes the world.
30/05/10
Release is now delayed to the new date of September 27th. More time for promotion.
Don't worry, if you pre-ordered, you will get your copies in June!!
03/05/10
Did we hear anyone say that self releasing is an easy option? Oh no. No no
no no no no. Instead of getting some dude at the record label to sort this
stuff out we've been busy with lots of the super tedious admin that's involved
in registering our tracks and brand new label Germ
Free. Yes, you heard it here first,
we have now officially got our own label! It's Germ Free, very clean indeed.
All this work will of course be totally worth it when we have the actual
album in our hands; all nice and new and shiny! Not. Long. Now.
16/04/10
Thank you thank you for coming along to our first night of the glorious Club
Stupid!! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. We managed to play most
of our most idiotic records without being asked to leave once and no one
complained, except to say that some of the music "wasn't stupid enough"!
That's what we like to hear!! Also, to the person who requested 'Coco Jambo'
by Mr President, we were happy we could play this for you. The crowd went
totally mental to Shakira and Rednex, yeah, who wouldn't?!
Oh and mega hurrah to Questionmark Bar lovely people. We were proved right
to hope and dream that a place called Questionmark Bar would truly get what
we were doing and not get arsey when top tunes by Holly Valance and Peter
Andre get played to people wearing Jedward masks and Pikachu outfits! Lets
do it again, soon, or your brain might regenerate.
10/04/10
Yes yes yes! It is the most ridiculous club in the world EVER. Club
Stupid,
coming attttchha!!!! This Thurs May 15th! A night celebrating the magnificent
depths of total stupidity in pop music. And don't get us wrong. We love
stupid. Stupid is good. Admit it, you love it too and can't wait to get
a proper smack with the stupid stick! Just say YES to STUPID!
02/04/10
Welcome ya'll to our new and improved site! Hope you like it.. Check out
the new Store page as now you can now buy all
of our releases on CD and MP3s at CD
Baby and iTunes,
in (almost) one click.. It's da futchaa!!! Also get ready for debut album
Another City Another Plan, coming out this June! Yes finally!! What can
we say, we've been busy!
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