I suddenly remembered the existence of Eiffel and have now spiralled back into listening to their whole discography again, and this specifically is the genre of music I adore, not even sure what exactly it is. The proper term can only be alt rock, but alt rock now can refer to so many different styles of music. Is it indie? Not really, it's more rock than that. Is it garage rock? No, it's less fuzzy and more melodic than that (although if you go far back enough to the album Abricotine then hell yes). It's vaguely grunge, but not Seattle grunge. I mean, this band took their name from a Pixies song, so there you have the type of alt rock I'm talking about, but of course, tone down the Americanness and up the Frenchness. Between them and listening to Super Furry Animals all evening I ask, who needs English?
Talking about this song. And about the following (older) album Abricotine