The culture of underground music that emerged in the UK during the late 1970s and early '80s is most strikingly singular and unpredictable in the contexts of creativity of the 20th Century. From the ashes of punk’s first wave came projects like Dome, This Heat, The Durutti Column, Nurse with Wound, Coil, Lifetones, Young Marble Giants, and numerous others, incorporating radically experimental temperaments into their sound.

Among the most mysterious and unique of these projects was Deux Filles, the short-lived duo of Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, both of whom would go on to have esteemed, albeit very different, careers of their own. Gathering a cult following over the years after the project’s dissolution, the band’s two LPs - 1982's “Silence & Wisdom” and 1983's “Double Happiness” - would eventually become some of the most sought-after artefacts of British music of their era, commanding staggering prices on the secondary market.

Thankfully, at long last, Our Swimmer has brought them both back with beautiful, brand new vinyl editions. Falling somewhere between folk, rigorous experimentalism, post-punk, ambient music, and art world conceptualism, there’s been nothing like them before or since.

TRACKS:
A1. Our English Friends
A2. Piroette
A3. The Third Movement
A4. Play Room
A5. Starboard She Said
A6. Los Estrellas
A7. Albert the Mud Fish
A8. Who Art In Heaven
A9. Shackleford Breeze
A10. 2 Blind 2 See
A11. Zazinthos

B1. Air Tube
B2. Little Brown Jig
B3. Tongues
B4. Shalama
B5. The Sun on the Sea
B6. Interlude
B7. The Snow Falls and the Village is Overflowing With Children
B8. Double Happiness