There's something cheeky about Québec band Numéro#. They are the anti-Miss Kittin: instead of singing about fame and glamour and success, they make fun of all of it. Their lyrics, all sung in French, ridicule the status obsessed world and those that live in it. This makes Numéro#'s 2006 album, L'Idéologie des stars (The Ideology of the Stars) a pretty intersting listen, even if their beats weren't as catchy as they are.

Their sound is up-beat and funky: electroindie, characterisitc of their hometown of Montreal. They are also quasai-celebrities in Québec: the delightful animated music video for their second single, "Chewing-gum fraise" ("Strawberry Chewing Gum"), was voted second best of 2006 by Québec-based music channel, MusiquePlus. 

In fact, their lead single, "Hip-pop," was so catchy that Canadian radio stations began to play it after downloading it off of their Myspace site: pretty rare for an independent band. They have even opened for French hip-hop supergroup TTC in their last tour.

Numéro# are an act to watch.

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