Le Loup
Family

Like first watching a movie on an old black-and-white TV and then seeing it in an IMAX theatre with the sound cranked up, Le Loup’s sweeping sop...

There are significant sounds of autumn: subtle changes in the sky make the underfoot hum of the pavement whisper in warmcool breezes. Finding the perf...

In her recent article in The Believer, "On the Spiritual in Indie Rock," Judy Berman uses Wassily Kandinsky's 1911 essay "On the Spiritual in Art" as ...

It's bizarre to hear so many influences clear as fucking day in a record and still not feel like it's derivative. Hence the look of gleeful puzzlement...

The DC band has followed up the mostly solo The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly with a much more succinct title...

"Le Loup" means "the wolf" in French. Sam Simkoff, frontman of the D.C.-based indie pop quintet that bears the appellation, claims he chose it to riff...

The banjo has a very distinct sound. Much like the sitar or the bagpipes, it instantly conjures up images of a particular place: sitar = India, bagpi...

Forget pictures: album titles can represent more than expected. Case in point: D.C. avant-pop outfit Le Loup, whose 2007 debut, The Thorne of the Thi...

Upon first listen, there is something very uncool about the deeply folk-steeped harmonised vocals on Le Loup’s second album Family. Track one, ‘Saddle...

Le Loup has simultaneously recreated and refined their recording process on this, their second album for Hardly Art. With a sound perfectly suited for...