![]() ![]() “Last Winter” sees Phlo bringing the chills across drippy beats, providing a bad bitch narrative of diamonds, dope and dirty dealings that could have easily been found somewhere on Cassie’s RockAByeBaby mixtape or Lana’s Born To Die. Sparse, ghostly and desolate, Poster Girl is already shaping up to become an essential haunt for your late night listening sessions: Think Cassie and Aaliyah at their loneliest, Lana Del Rey at her summertime saddest, Natalie Walker at her dreamiest and The Weeknd at his Weekndiest (oh, how I love the Weeknd.) Now, Phlo’s preparing to release a debut EP in the UK on Night Beach Records called Poster Girl on July 29, co-produced by Benny Cassette and Andrew Dawson, who is best known for his work with Kanye West, Nas, Jay-Z and, most recently, with the Pet Shop Boys on their shimmering 2012 record, Elysium. As it turned out, all she needed was time - and time was quite kind to her. Groomer: Marina Migliaccio for The Rex Agency using Oribe Rough Luxury.The California-bred, Youthquaker-inspired (that’s a 1960’s cultural moment, FYI) songstress has been floating (read: phloating) around for a while now: In fact, she’s been slowly generating buzz and releasing music over the past few years, even briefly retiring from music at one point in December. Stylist: Yohanna Logan for The Rex Agency. Photographer: Ian Morrison for Opus Reps. And like the set list that might accompany a real Saturnalia, Club Cheval’s music is designed for dancing, and passion. “We released it at least three times-we spent a lot of time trying to make it more accessible without losing its original vibe.” Working with the likes of Kore and Brodinski-co-founders of Bromance Records (home to Club Cheval)-with vocals by Miami-based R&B singer Rudy (who has worked with Chris Brown and The Weeknd) and L.A.-based singer-songwriter Phlo Finister- Discipline is a thumping, pulsating, saturnalia of sound. Perhaps fittingly, Discipline-the group’s long-overdue debut album-was released in early 2016. Lazy is not a word that is easily applied to the group. you can actually feel the difference when you move from area to area.” Although, he concedes, no city is perfect “I need danger in my life, I need insecurity to have pressure and the pressure gives me creativity so maybe if I lived in L.A. “I like the quality of life it’s simpler than Paris, people are calmer, nicer-coming from Paris, most of the city has the same vibe, I like that in L.A. Tiba is a member of Club Cheval-the French group that includes producers Canblaster, Myd, and Panteros666-and, despite the infamous narcissism of The City of Angels, he is excited about being in Los Angeles-gearing up for the North American leg of the band’s tour. It’s all about showing people that you’re at that party.” ![]() ![]() “They take too many pictures during the party, and because of that they don’t dance enough. “People take too many pictures.” Sam Tiba proclaims, puffing on a cigarette while speaking about the ubiquity of phones at his band’s gigs, serving to mediate the passion of the performance, one disconnected selfie at-a-time. ![]()
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