Pointillisme

Pharaon de Winter, a 19th-century painter from Northern France, reappears in 2015 as a band led by Maxime Chamoux (Toy Fight), whose music exists in a genre between North American rock like Spoon or Neutral Milk Hotel and sophisticated British pop like Prefab Sprout or XTC. For Pharaon de Winter, Chamoux is joined by Thomas Pirot on drums, Raphael Ankierman on bass, and FX Gueant-Mata on guitar. The delicate voice of Mina Tindle also appears here and there, and Canadian musician Sandro Perri, whose 2011 album Impossible Spaces received an 8.3 rating from Pitchfork, has also joined the band.