Paris-based No Panties are Noemi Leneman and Gautier Roques.
To Gautier’s future-proof synthetic soundscapes, Noemi adds abstract stories of lost phones, murdered husbands and Instagram with a vocal that shifts from dreamlike melodies that could make you levitate, to the hypnotic force of floor-filling choruses. Between them, No Panties sound like a Studio 54 revival party in a Paris basement.
The duo’s debut EP ‘Matching Tattoos’, due early Fall, is a pop manifesto for 2021, combining Gautier’s intricate production with Noemi’s irrepressible hooks. Beneath the sound lies a nuanced critique of modern life: Noemi celebrates the revival of the practice of witchcraft as a feminist statement on “Witch Diary”, then calls out our collective screen obsession on “Lost My Phone”. “Fast Food” transports us to suburban America, where a High School love story turns sour after decades of marriage and forgotten dreams of emulating Jane Fonda - A Netflix series’ worth of drama in four minutes. “Fantaisie” meanwhile sends the EP soaring into the future.
A direct translation from the French “Sans Culottes”, No Panties are named in part for the 18th French revolutionaries who overthrew the aristocracy, and in part in reference to their songwriting process - revealing everything through music in a world obsessed with the superficial.
To Gautier’s future-proof synthetic soundscapes, Noemi adds abstract stories of lost phones, murdered husbands and Instagram with a vocal that shifts from dreamlike melodies that could make you levitate, to the hypnotic force of floor-filling choruses. Between them, No Panties sound like a Studio 54 revival party in a Paris basement.
The duo’s debut EP ‘Matching Tattoos’, due early Fall, is a pop manifesto for 2021, combining Gautier’s intricate production with Noemi’s irrepressible hooks. Beneath the sound lies a nuanced critique of modern life: Noemi celebrates the revival of the practice of witchcraft as a feminist statement on “Witch Diary”, then calls out our collective screen obsession on “Lost My Phone”. “Fast Food” transports us to suburban America, where a High School love story turns sour after decades of marriage and forgotten dreams of emulating Jane Fonda - A Netflix series’ worth of drama in four minutes. “Fantaisie” meanwhile sends the EP soaring into the future.
A direct translation from the French “Sans Culottes”, No Panties are named in part for the 18th French revolutionaries who overthrew the aristocracy, and in part in reference to their songwriting process - revealing everything through music in a world obsessed with the superficial.
