Best New Bands » Petite Noir https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Petite Noir Made the Night Beautiful at Rickshaw Stop https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/petite-noir-rickshaw-stop/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/petite-noir-rickshaw-stop/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:12:32 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=29601 San Fransisco – “Life is beautiful.” This is a sentiment that floods the minds and hearts of bright-eyed optimists all over the world. Everything is relative, obviously, so there isn’t really any objective way to assess the quality of consciousness and existence. There are many who would probably argue that life is, in fact, far from beautiful: the

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/petite-noir-rickshaw-stop/feed/ 0 Petite Noir – “La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful” https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/petite-noir-la-vie-est-belle-life-beautiful/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/petite-noir-la-vie-est-belle-life-beautiful/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2015 07:39:49 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27244 Los Angeles - Petite Noir has successfully created one of the best albums of 2015 with La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful. 24 year-old South African artist Yannick Ilunga takes his electronic post-punk to a new genre, noir wave. If not the best album, than it is certainly the most imaginative. Petite Noir’s aesthetic

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