With influences ranging from Brian Eno to Blur, Suicide to The Stooges or New Order, the Parisian quartet Neïmo released a strong debut album (”Modern Incidental” on Village Vert) in France last year. Good news, “Modern Incidental” will be out in the US and UK later this year. Expect the band to tour extensively to support it.

Stay tuned for a Neïmo remix contest on Fairtilizer soon!

Bonus interview below.

Hi Neïmo, how are you doing?

Pretty good, we’re heading to Germany next month, and the Moderne Incidental Tour has started! We’re on the road with the Dodoz for three weeks now. We’re also really excited about the release of “Moderne Incidental” in Germany, in the UK and in the US in the forthcoming weeks.

What’s going on in Neïmo’s world right now?

Playing every night in a different city. Trying to be as smart (or as dumb, it depends) as we can answering hundreds of questions about the release of our last album. But we’re having a good time doing it because – let’s say it – we’re really proud of the 12 tracks in it.

What are you currently listening to?

As always, a mix between recent and old stuff. In the van, for example, we love singing along some of Morissey’s hits, as well as listening to Vampire Weekend. Most of the time, The Strokes’ First Impressions Of Earth is never far from the player.

How is the scene in Paris at the moment?

As Froggys, Paris rock scene right now is something we should all be really be proud of! We’re glad that a lot of our band mates are now touring Europe and sometimes The States to spread the French rock spirit. Singing in English for a French band is no longer a weird thing. With The Dodoz, Brooklyn, Sourya, Stuck In The Sound, we shall conquer the world!

You are releasing your second album in a difficult moment for the music industry: how do you see the future for it?

Indeed, it seems that the physical support (the CD) is not as sexy as it used to be. Well you know what, I can understand that, a CD is not particularly sexy as such. Everything changes, and now people are listening to music on their computer, but it doesn’t mean this is the end of music at all. People are more than ever living with music, they’re still going to concerts, some of them are buying digital format. I’m actually surprised to notice that the youngest are aware of the fact that we, artists, have to live out of it.

How important is the Internet for you as a band?

I guess I won’t be very original by telling you that without internet, it would have been impossible to get what we have now. Our Myspace page, for example, has a loads of visits, and it’s really nice to have the feedback from our audience trough it.

We are in a world with a lot of different models on the net: what kind of new service should be brought to the table?

Streaming is a brilliant way to listen to whatever you want, wherever you are…I guess we’ll soon all be plugged on that kind of stuff 24 hours a day via our iPods.

Where do you see this whole internet thing going?

Difficult to answer that one, because there’s actually not any real policy about what you can find on Internet…That’s maybe the most exciting part of it, not to know where it’s going!