PETER & KERRY's strikingly assured debut CD "La Trimouille" follows up the well-received "Clothes, Friends, Photos" EP which came out in late 2011 to a chorus of approval across blogs and digital press. Peter Lyons and Kerry Leatham met in 2009, brought together under the wing of London-based Tape Club Records. While Southampton native Lyons had joined with Tape Club in 2006, releasing a handful of singles along the way, self-taught guitarist Leatham had grown up 100 miles away, in Colchester, inspired into songwriting by Ani DiFranco's passionate folk strumming and the Van Morrison records she grew up hearing on the family stereo. As a duo, they bonded over goofy comedy appreciation (the cheerfully fizzy, bass-driven "Annie" is an ode to Goldie Hawn rom-com, Overboard), and a mutual love of 0s electro pop. These influences shine brightly on stand-out track "Split For The City", an up-tempo, synth-filled pop gem that evokes the Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey hit "Together In Electric Dreams", aided in part by the electric guitars and "crap Yamaha keyboards from the late 0s and early 0s" that provide the album's instrumental bedrock. Retro electro may figure prominently, but there's a flair for modern digital tropes too, such as the understated chiptune bossa nova of "Montmorillon", and the layered hiss ' crackle on "St. Pierre", mementos of a summer spent writing in the French locale which gave the album its name. "We listened to Beach House constantly, as well as a lot of Grizzly Bear, so we had reference points" says Leatham. "But it ended up sounding nothing like either of them". PETER & KERRY have now yielded a bright, thrilling debut - a collection of earnest, character-driven electro pop snapshots, fuelled with the joyful simpatico of their bold boy / girl harmonies Record Label: Tape Club Style: Independent