Chic Gamine

If you took Feist and split her into three, and then had all three of those Feists join TLC… and then got everyone together with the Black Keys… you might be getting close to what Chic Gamine does. They have Motown souls, French Pop spirits, and Rock and Roll hearts. And they’re actually French. Just to make it extra sexy. (Check out the bilingual tumblr!) This band consists of three angel-voiced girls plus one drummer boy: Annick Bremault, Alexa Dirks, Andrina Turenne and Sacha Daoud. With origins in the rich Francophone arts community of Winnipeg’s St. Boniface, the group emerged in 2007 as a full-on vocal collaboration with no lead singer. Each of these voices brings something rare and personal, and with no hierarchy they’re free to trade off and fuse over Daoud’s hyper-intelligent rhythms and some serious instrumental grooves.