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april 22, 2008
A POP ALTHING

The Limes are reviewed on Steffán Walter's blog, A Pop Althing.

march 27, 2008
BIBABIDI
“...Man, these guys are fun! I love it! Listen listen listen! They'll be on Wes Anderson's next film soundtrack; they'll be in a Target or VS ad; they'll be in your heart and soul, no doubt.”

march 20, 2008
RCRD LBL lists The Limes as a featured download. RCRD LBL is an online record label releasing exclusive and completely free music from emerging and established artists.

february, 2008
La Blogothèque has a new website and The Limes have their own page.
Check it out...

december 1, 2007
LE MAG INDIE ROCK
“…Bon, OK. Heureusement, 2007 a aussi marqué la naissance de The Limes, groupe franco-américain dont on a déjà raconté la jolie histoire sur le Mag. Quand David Simonetta nous a proposé le morceau ‘The Snake’, sa place en ouverture de cette compil nous a paru comme une évidence. Chanson encore une fois surprenante, ‘The Snake’ jette un pont idéal entre pop anglaise et garage rock américain, entre The Smiths et The Feelies. David a bien voulu se prêter au jeu de l’interview et nous promet, ô joie, un album des Limes pour l’année prochaine…”

November 2, 2007
KEVCHINO.COM, INDIE MUSIC REVIEWS
“…In response to their current single ‘Beyond Blue’, The Limes have garnered a modest level of acclaim from esteemed music blogs like Said the Gramophone and Gorilla Vs. Bear, which has resulted in the band getting invited to shoot a live performance video for La Blogothèque’s ‘Take Away Shows’, known for filming artists (such as Arcade Fire, St. Vincent, and Liars) playing acoustically in wildly unique settings. ‘Beyond Blue’, said to be the first track the band actually recorded together in one location, embodies a Phil Spector-esque wall of sound backdrop to its bittersweet harmonies, echoed vocals and jingle bells. The result is effective, leaving the listener haunted, wanting more…”

october 9, 2007
SAID THE GRAMOPHONE
“The Limes finally altogether, literally in one room, a long-distance band making a song when they're at last close enough to high-five, shake hands, kiss lips, bang heads, jitterbug; whatever's appropriate. I can imagine them shy, tentative, playing their cherry-red and mint-green parts, standing at a distance. But the drums won't stand for this hesitation. People are shoved, coerced, cajoled. They're rumbled & tumbled. It's like what they sing, deep in their wall of sound: Loving until you're blue, til you're beyond blue, til you've been shaken & stirred to a place where you ache and show a crisp, bright, hard-sky glow.”

september 24, 2007
GORILLA VS. BEAR
“Our friends in transatlantic pop collective The Limes sent us their newest gem over the weekend, all the way from France/North Carolina. I'm not sure how Limes contributor Mina Tindle isn't a household name by now, but this can only speed things along…”

september 24, 2007
LE MAG INDIE ROCK
“The Limes, Pop Sans Frontiére”
“…C’est le cas de The Limes, né de la rencontre il y a quelques mois, via myspace, de David, membre de Toy Fight, groupe parisien dont on a déjà dit tout le bien que l’on pensait ici et Brent qui enregistre ses compositions pop-folk sous le pseudonyme d’Henry Sparrow, à Durham en Caroline du Nord. Réunissant quelques amis : Mina Tindle, Orouni et John Hale, ils décidèrent donc de fonder The Limes avec l’idée de partager des idées musicales de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique. C’est ainsi que des démos composées à Paris se retrouvent arrangées, retravaillées et réenregistrées à Durham et vice versa. En écoutant les différentes versions sur la page myspace du groupe, on peut mesurer le chemin parcouru par chaque chanson, parfois à l’opposé de l’orientation musicale de départ. C’est ainsi que mois après mois, prennent vie des chansons à la double-nationalité, toutes plus belles les unes que les autres : de la complexité mélodique de ‘Big Top Head’, bande son d’un carnaval imaginaire à l’évidence pop déconcertante de ‘Miniature’, en passant par la mélancolie de ‘Distressed Waitresses’…”

may 19, 2007
BLOG POP
“Suite des aventures post-mortem du groupe Toy Fight. La bande à David, Pauline, Orouni, Maxime, Henry [Brent] et John poursuit sa route musicale inter-continentale. Une nouvelle chanson des Limes, de Mina Tindle et de Please Don’t Blame Mexico. On me taxerait de favoritisme si ce n’était pas aussi bon…”

april 23, 2007
SAID THE GRAMOPHONE
“The Limes are an international affair: scraps of song sent in brown paper & string from France to America, and beyond, each player adding a touch, a flourish, a voice, a flowerpetal. And with ‘Morning, Noon & Night’ there's something very right in this, or even in sharing it here with you. It feels like a song that's meant to be passed, that's meant to travel, that's meant to arrive at the lover's destination all stamped with visas and stuck-up with transit stickers. I like to imagine David Simonetta's voice, dreamily romantic, in an airplane over the ocean. I like to imagine the band in separate crates: the ethereal ooh-ers; the jovial organ-and-jingles; and dusky-throated Mina Tindle, like David's best friend, the one who carries his voice to the post-office in a little cloche hat (she, not the voice). Rarely has a song of longing moved with so much swing.”

april 2, 2007
LA BLOGOTHÈQUE

“The Limes Pop Transatlantique”
“Sans préambule, pour ceux qui aiment aller à l’essentiel : The Limes, le groupe formé par Orouni, Toyfight, Mina Tindle, Henry Sparrow [Brent Ballantyne] et John Hale a déjà fait six chansons magnifiques…”

MARCH 2, 2007
HÓLMÍ
Interview with Orouni
“Internet, formidable outil qui permet de s'affranchir des frontières et d'offrir à de nombreux artistes la possibilité de collaborer par delà les océans. On se souvient de 2006 et de la formidable complicité entre Isobel Campbell et Mark Lanegan, voici un autre type de ces projets transatlantiques: The Limes…”