One of the most adorable all-female Brooklyn trios just released a new music video for “Another Likely Story,” a track off of their latest album Still Night, Still Light.

We’ve said it before. Au Revoir Simone is the epitome of the term, ethereal. What girl out there isn’t jealous of their slender limbs and angelic locks of hair? Although most videos seem to follow the three girls around in their natural habitat, we don’t mind. This time, there are sparkly and electronic pink slabs in bits of everything they walk by. Check the video out below!

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Indie pop group Au Revoir Simone released their third studio album, Still Night, Still Light on May 19th off of their own record company, Our Secret Record Company.  The all women’s group, consisting of Heather D’Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart started off as a social club or a “living room band” in 2003. The band originally consisted of four members but one lost interest and quit and although their first two efforts were good, going from a hobby to an actual full time job helped better their work. As Forster explains:

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We’ve picked out favorite artists of the week. Now it’s your turn to pick yours!

Do you enjoy the melancholic twee sounds of indie pop legends, Belle and Sebastian (listen here)? Or do you prefer the danceable Strokes-like music of The Virgins (listen here)? Is your pick the dreamy synth melodies of Au Revoir Simone (listen here)? Or do you like the noise pop full of reverb from the DIY Vivian Girls (listen here)?

The number one voted artist will receive a special BeatCrave feature at the end of the month. So support your favorite band and vote for them in our BeatCrave Fav Poll!

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Brooklyn-based band Au Revoir Simone consists of three very beautiful women – fair-skinned, brunette, tall and slender – a quality that is almost unfair because dare I say beauty such as theirs beholds such a tranquilizing effect that they could spew static against my eardrums and still I’d be intrigued. They’re one of the few bands out there that has neither let their physicality be a benefit nor a detriment to their musical longevity, but I digress.

Their style is artful all around, but the way they make friendly with xylophones and simulated wind chimes, Au Revoir Simone couldn’t sound like static if they tried. Formed in 2003, the band has remained relatively subdued on the pop music radar, however much easily recognized in the indie scene alongside contemporaries such as The Postal Service, Belle and Sebastian, and Rilo Kiley. Their sound is transcendental enough to inspire out of the box thinking yet thoroughly inclusive with strategically-placed lyrical phrases and user-friendly beats.

If you like their sound as much as we do, be sure to vote for them in Friday’s poll!

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• Warp Records will release the third Grizzly Bear LP, entitled Veckatimest, on May 25/26^th, nearly two-and-a-half years since their defining album, Yellow House. The band has a busy schedule in 2009, with appearances at SXSW and Bonnaroo. The album’s title is the name of a small island on the Massachusetts coast, and guitarist Ed Drost told Pitchfork that despite previous collaborations on the Friends EP, this new effort is just the four members of the band. Here’s the tracklist, mark your calendars!
• Acclaimed electronica artist Mr. Oizo, of “yellow puppet” fame, will have his Pourriture EP out on Ed Banger Records on March 16^th, after his 2008 album Lambs Anger. Brushing shoulders with other artists at Ed Banger, like Justice, Dj Mehdi and Sebastian, the heavy electro-beats from Mr. Oizo are sure to bring chaos to dancefloors around the world. Watch out for the release, and check out his Myspace for tour dates in Australia and Europe. Continue Reading