I love smart new bands that can refresh and recreate older music and make it their own. Nouvelle Vague is such a band. blogTo wrote about them being in Toronto recently, and this lede into the review of their show sums them up quite nicely:
Nouvelle Vague brought back British ’80s new wave and punk in their own style Wednesday night at The Opera House. It’s not everyday you get to see a pretty, young French singer break into The Clash, Sex Pistols, New Order and Joy Division.
Recreating some memorable hits in either a country, bluegrass, bossa nova or folk genre, they put on quite the entertaining cabaret-style show. Supporting their third studio album, 3, the French group, led by arrangers/producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, enchanted the audience with 20 remarkably reworked songs, sung by two young chanteuses, Helene Nogueira and Karina Zeviani.
They have lots of great videos over at YouTube, including this one:
That’s not your Dad’s Billy Idol. And I should know! 🙂 But it’s great pop, done terrifically well.
Smart People I Know 
David Lynch couldn’t have reimagined the song any better. Thanks for this.
Good call! It does have a David Lynch feel to it! Maybe he could use N.V. in his next film!
(P.S. You have a good email handle, too!)