Another track has emerged from Fauve ahead of the release of the forthcoming live collection that
documents the spoken-work collective's live activities.
The track azulejos will feature on the album 150.900, a number that signifies the number of kilometers the collective have travelled in their tours.
Fauve have established themselves as one of France's most significant acts over the period of the past three years, their live reputation one of the key factors in their appeal.
They followed the release of the two volumes of the Vieux Freres albums with an extensive schedule of live dates in France and beyond. The act want the new live album to be more than just a collection of live version of tracks already available on the studio albums, but want it to be more of an audio documentary of the band while they were touring.
The new track comes after the release of a live version of the track Blizzard,a track from their debut EP.
The new live album is released on April 1 and is already available to pre-order in a variety of formats.
A new live collection is on the cards from Fauve,with an album chronicling their last three years of live appearances due out this spring.
150.900 takes its title from the number of kilometers they travelled in the course of their live appearances over three years, a period that saw them progress from the critically tipped act that released their Blizzard EP to the widely acclaimed act with two albums under their belt, masive sales and sell-out live shows.
While managing to maintain a level of anonymity, they've also paradoxically become an iconic act, articulating the discontent, bleakness as well as the hope for something better experienced by all too many these days.
The Paris-based collective have released a live version of the track Blizzard as a preview of the new album.
Fauve announced in the autumn of last year their plans to take a well-deserved break, to restore their sanity and to avoid falling into a new routine. Hopefully it will not be too long until they're refreshed and ready to release new material.
A look at French music in 2015 cannot fail to take into account the tragedies that unfold in Paris. Discussing the events in the context of a music blog seems both inapproriate but unavoidable, such was the shadow cast.
To ignore it would be grossly insensitive, but to mention it a crass appropriation of other people's sorrow.
But I've always been interested in French music, and that is what will focus on here. I'll leave the geopolitics to others, but the events that unfolded this year will be felt in the French music world for years to come.
In terms of what else happened in music in 2015, there might not have been a massive international breakthrough like Daft Punk, but the acts at the current forefront of the French scene have continued to release strong new material.
Christine and the Queens released their debut album in the USA with new songs including the wonderful Jonathan.
Stromae's Quand c'est was one of the year's most remarkable videos, as the success of his 2013 Racine Carrée collection saw him embark on adventures in North America and Africa.
Respectable releases too from stars of previous generations, with new material from Mylene Farmer, Johnny Hallyday and Jean-Michel Jarre all showing that established artists can still have something to offer.
But focussing on five of the best releases of 2015 brings some other acts to mind.
Fauve's Vieux Frères, Partie 2 was the release that saw the act fully deliver on the promise of their debut. As good as that release was, it never quite hit the spot for me as much as I felt it should. No reservations about its follow up whatsoever, and with Les Hautes Lumières simply one of the best French language songs of recent years.
A more electronic proposition came from Rone, with the album Creatures. It's a mature and confident album, taking modern electronic music somewhere where it is more cerebral, but remains accessible at the same time.
Who would have expected an album that saw Grand Corps Malade with not only Charles Aznavour and also include the return or Renaud? GCM's Il nous restera ça album took seemingly disparate elements in its stride, and raised the bar when it comes to spoken word performance.
An album I thouroughly enjoyed was the debut by Blind Digital Citizen, Premières vies, which came out in March. It continues the trend of France producing wonderful genre defying modern rock acts, somewhere between rock, electro and psychedelic with a nod to chanson.
But if an album of the year must be chosen, unquestionably it came from Feu! Chatterton in the form of their Ici le jour (a tout enseveli) collection.
The Paris-based five piece have this year moved from critical acclaim to becoming one of the country's most significant acts. Their influences run deep, from 18th Century poetry, 19th century painters and Alain Bashung , jazz, and indie rock, but the songs on their album sound like no one else.
Another track being promoted as a single from the Vieux Frères partie 2 album by Fauve.
The album's been one of this year's best, and if their debut showed them as masters of the angry torrent of words, this new one showed them capable of a more colourful and varied sound, perhaps a more mature outlook and certainly one that's met with considerable commercial success.
It's a collection that has grown in its appeal with repeated listening, and if the new track Tallulah encourages others to tune on or to re-listen, they'll certainly come away the better for the experience.
Fauve are in their on-going tour at the moment, with gigs around France over the next few months and festival shows over the summer.
A number one album in France this week for the new release by Fauve, the collective knocking M Pokora off the top spot with their new collection.
Last year's Vieux Frères - Partie 1 established the act as one of France's most interesting performers, taking spoken word in a new direction. The new collection Vieux Frères - Partie 2 has been met with even more enthusiasm by the French public.
Fauve are touring in March April and May. Their live dates include a mini-tour of venues in Paris, with shows at the Nouveau Casino on March 10, the Gaîté Lyrique on March 11, Le Bataclan the 12th, L'Olympia the following day, Le Casino de Paris on March 17, Le Trianon the 18th, the Trabendo on the 19th, La Flèche d'Or on March 20, La Maroquinerie on March 21.
A new track by Paris-based collective Fauve, the first track from the follow-up to their Vieux Frères partie 1.
The album was one of 2014's key releases, with the band performing across France and elsewhere to support it, establishing themselves beyond doubt as one of the country's most significant acts.
The new track, entitled Hautes Lumières, shows a more upbeat and positive direction, with an epic and uplifting sound underscored by their distinctive vocal style.
The new collection, entited Vieux Frères partie 2 is expected on February 16 and like its predecessor it will be awaited with impatience and expectation of something quite special.
The Solidays festival gets underway in Paris, at Longchamps, with three days of some of the best live acts in France and beyond.
The first day sees Shaka Ponk, Fauve and M on the bill, along with La Rue Ketanou, Breton, Vitalic and plenty of others.
June 28 sees Cats on Trees, Gesaffelstein and Rodrigo y Gabriela playing.Franz Ferdinand and We Were Evergreen also take to the stage
The third day sees more acts that are familiar to this blog performing, with Christine and the Queens, Vanessa Paradis and Skip the Use, along with Woodkid, FFF, Girls in Hawaii and Yuksek.
Solidays has been since its inception an event that has been politically engaged, specifically in the fight against Aids, especially in Africa. It has raised millions of Euros to help the cause since it was first held in 1999, and the event this year takes its inspiration from Nelson Mandela.
While as an event, it's certainly a worthy one, it's also got a line-up that cannot fail to impress.
A clip that's been around for just over a week by the mighty Fauve, for the track Infirmiere.
It comes from the collective's debut Vieux frères - Partie 1 which was released in February.
I liked the album, although I have to admit it didn't hit me with the impact that I maybe expected it would, but I have to say it has grown on me and this track is a perfect example of that.
It might not have the drama of some of their earlier songs, but it has a haunting and haunted quality, reminding me more of the likes of Arab Strap.
It has a similar melancholy and humanity and while I was initially a bit suspicious of their positioning themselves as a 'collective' and a 'spoken word' act, thinking it as a way to present rap without the hip hop stylings, I get the feeling that they're actually being more honest and direct in their approach rather than fulfilling genre expectations.
They've got a huge number of festival dates over the summer all over France and they release Vieux frères - Partie 2 later this year.
There's a feeling that Fauve are one of the most hyped acts at the moment, with expectations high about their
debut collection Vieux frères - Partie 1.
And it is an impressive and confident work. The words urgent and passionate, the music clever and the production spot on.
And this collection continues their previous work, the barrage of lyrics of Voyous sets their agenda, with the feeling they have much to say and little time to say it in. Requin-Tigres is a more expansive work, a brief respite before Jeunesse Talking Blues brings back the anger and frustration while Rag #3 is more reflective. Infirmiere more song-based and not a million miles from Stromae.
De Ceux is another densely-worded work, Rag #4 a pause before we enter Tunnel, guitar weaving around beats and female vocals. Lettre a Zoe and Loterie are probably the works that will be returned to repeatedly.
It's very much a hip hop album, but with most of the genre signifiers removed.
So Fauve are a collective, rather than a crew or a posse. Their work is spoken word rather than rap, with guitars rather than turntables.
While no doubt breaking down genre conventions in its way, maybe this irritates me slightly. It could be seen as whitewashed hip hop for an audience uncomfortable around black culture.
But Fauve do win you over. It's not as important as it perhaps thinks it is, the lyrics are not always as poetic they probably should be, but there's enough going on to maintain interest, a momentum that persuades you to overlook and forgive any issues you might have. This is a journey that you want to continue.
It's a success despite some reservations. We'll see if Vieux frères part two secures their position.
Fauve are getting a huge amount of attention at the moment, not surprising given their position somewhere between the popularity and directness of rap and the more experimental areas of rock.
Fauve's debut album Vieux Frères - partie 1 is to be released on Feb 3 2014 in France and already looks like one of the things to look forward to in the new year.
A second disc will follow towards the end of 2014, which the band are writing at the moment and are to record in the spring.
They've got a schedule of live dates for 2014 already in place, with a show in Paris at the Bataclan on February 3 and another there on March 4.
A new video by ≠ FAUVE, which has come out ahead of their performance in London later this month.
The track comes from their forthcoming debut album which follows the six track Blizzard EP which they released last year.
This EP made the top 20 in France, two songs - Blizzard and Nuits fauves - making it into the singles chart.
The album is due out early next year, and already looks set to be one of 2014's most anticipated releases.
≠ FAUVE are a collective of five members, who have been active since 2010. I suppose their music could be filed under 'rap', but it is so beyond any conventions of the genre that it's really something quite unique.
Another track has emerged from Fauve ahead of the release of the forthcoming live collection that 
