Watch Tristesse Contemporaine didn't know, but they did it anyway

In what must be this week's sweatiest song French Noir Vérité outfit Tristesse Contemporaine proclaim that they didn't kow what they were doing until they were doing it, and that's exactly the abundantly sexy, brazenly spontaneous, rocking-out vibe you'll find with their self-titled debut album available now. The trio of enigmatic donkey masked singer Maik, Leo on guitars and Narumi on synthesizers, trusted their minimalist melodies to the expert hands of DJ/ Producer Pilooski, who also happens to be responsible for one of the great reworks of WhoMadeWho's recently remixed "Running Man". Romantic and flamboyant, arrogant and haunting, this first album imagines a world in chiaroscuro where the electrical illuminations of shoegazing merge with electronic beats, with a heightened new wave sensitivity. Climb to the dark side of modern pop as you enter the fractured, hypnotic, dance of Tristesse Contemporaine.