Frank Rabeyrolles is a discreet and unclassifiable figure on the French music scene, who first gained attention in 2004 with Life Behind the Window, the debut album from his project Double U. His dreamy, hybrid music, oscillating between pop, electronic, and songwriting, astonishes and seduces. He has released a solid succession of albums first under Double U and then Franklin. His creative approach over the years, and now decades, could be seen as a yearning for artistic ritual driven by passion, but also as an existential necessity. At the end of 2011, Frank Rabeyrolles decided to release #8, his first album under his real name. Between Experimental Pop, Lo-Fi Folk, and Ambient, Frank has never wanted or needed to choose. The follow-up comes in 2021 with A Ghost by the Sea, a record that asserts itself as ambient, also endowed with a melodic and contemplative obsession that has been a trademark since his debut. In 2022 and 2023, he composed Boat Songs and Minor Blue, bittersweet, chiaroscuro ballads built around clear and concise guitars, accompanied by Romain Delorme and Sébastien Pasquet in a Guitar/Bass/Drums Trio. In early 2024, Frank Rabeyrolles returned to solitary work in the home studio, cultivating a gentle schizophrenia between tenderness, sonic roundness, echoes, spleen, and hope. The album In Conversations was released in February 2025 on Araki Records. After two albums recorded in a trio/quartet format, this new album marks a return to a certain pop bricolage and organic work created around layers of guitars. His new stunning album, Slow, was released in February on the French label Too Good To Be True.

Fran Carlyon has been writing acoustic based songs in the folk tradition for a number of years now. He records them in threadbare fashion in as few takes as possible, incorporating synths and electronics to add light and shade. In his view, capturing the initial spark of inspiration is key, as it conveys the message and meaning in the purest possible way.
After a batch of digital singles, his debut mini album, Home Truths, was released 6th February via the wonderful Manchester/Brighton based label YYZ Records. Beyond his songs, Fran is a kind of musical soul brother to us, sharing our values and taste in true independent music and being very active in the underground independent scene: he writes for HeavyMetalKids.uk and DJs at Ship Full Of Bombs, Southend’s alternative radio station.

Sunny Intervals combines indiepop, folk and light electronica, as put together in London by Andy, formerly of the band Pocketbooks. Active from 2012 to 2016, when he released three delicious albums, Rooftops (2012), Step Into Spring (2014) and Sunrise (2016), Sunny Intervals returned, after almost ten years, with Swept Away. It is “a late night whisper,” written over the course of a decade, and recorded as lightly and naturally as possible at home, mostly in Andy’s kitchen at night while the neighbourhood was sleeping, with acoustic guitars, light percussion, keyboards and soft synthesisers. A soft mix of indiepop, folk and light electronica, Swept Away was released in April 2025, and re-released as a deluxe Bandcamp version including the original 10-track album and the five-track Almost Imperceptibly EP (and a sort of disco remix of Electromagnetic) in November 2025.