AN AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL / TE AHUREI TOI O TĀMAKI EVENT
Having toured throughout Europe and the USA, supporting the likes of Agnes Obel, Lorde and Marlon Williams and playing the festival circuit, dream-pop luminaries French for Rabbits are the creators of some of New Zealand’s most hauntingly ethereal music.
Fronted by the delicately voiced Brooke Singer, the band’s emotionally intelligent music is evocative of land and sea, awash with glistening layers and unexpected tangents.
Propelled along by the intricate instrumentation of guitarist John Fitzgerald, drummer Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa, and multi-instrumentalists Ben Lemi (Trinity Roots) and Penelope Esplin (Grawlixes, Dam Dans), their songs cleverly and compassionately explore the political and the everyday with fragility, sideways humour and optimism.
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Watch French For Rabbits Dust-Speckled Clip For The Dark Arts Annabel Kean / Thursday 10th December, 2020 10:59AM
The always lovely
French For Rabbits have a new collection on the way, and share a dust-speckled video fresh off the render queue for lead single The Dark Arts ,
created with support from
NZ On Air. Like many great ideas, the inspiration for the self-directed visuals came to vocalist
Brooke Singer upon waking up early one morning and seeing the simple beauty of dust swirling through shafts of sunlight. Armed with cinematographer Ted Whitaker and a full vacuum bag, the crew took over a gorgeous 1960s Brooklyn church (which is all yours for a hearty $2mil) and dognapped a couple of pups that wandered by before capturing the sunset streaming through a space you can almost smell just from its velvet curtains, stacked chairs and tired old piano. Singer and her French For Rabbits band are mid-tour as we speak, with one more show to celebrate the sin
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