Clubbing For Columbine

Description

Figureheads of a collective based in the suburbs of Rennes, the duo Columbine (Foda C and Lujipeka) embody the perfect response of modern teens to a world falling into ruins. Their new mixtape Enfants Terribles gives off wild romanticism, dreams of glory and insults; the scents of a white-trash teenage depression, the madness and sadness of an Odd Future-like crew. An e´(s)th(ét)ic contained entirely in the duo’s name: a massacre in an American high school and the will to get by. It is a tension, a hint of despair but also a dreamy humanism, an altruistic individualism, a depressed air rifle: the dove and the Kalashnikov in the same breath. Solitude, escape and boredom parade between the speakers, carrying the muffled violence of this band; a bag of words ripped open from which a slightly deranged urbanity escapes. A certain idea of adolescence and of tomorrow’s world in which the thousands of kids flocking to their concerts see themselves. A fanbase the collective built on its own, in record time and with unprecedented success. Independent and autonomous, outside the game, outside the circuit and almost outside the competition, Columbine are carving out their own path: Luji and Foda write, produce, direct their videos, sell their records and their merchandising through their own structure, VMS.