Fol Chen, Brixton Windmill

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Fol Chen, Brixton Windmill

Fol Chen makes Howard Male happy

by Howard MaleMonday, 07 September 2009

Fol Chen

Why do Fol Chen make me feel so happy? To begin with it was just a smile that crept across my face when I stumbled across their barmy animated video for "No Wedding Cake". This mini-epic features a lip-synching fish, some lion-headed dancing girls, and an owl that ends up stealing the bleeding heart of a goat-horned man. Another promo, for the sprightly "Cable TV", has five mini-skirted girls going through the girl-group motions. But, needless to say, Fol Chen are not a girl group, so that made me smile some more.

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