French musician and singer Frank Rabeyrolles debuted in 2004 with Life behind the window, the first album of his project Double u, with dreamy and hybrid music, oscillating between pop, electronic and songwriting. A prolific and insatiable artist, Rabeyrolles released a solid succession of albums under Double u first then Franklin on different labels such as Sonar Kollektiv, Nocturne, Karat, Plug Research. At the end of 2011, it was under his real name that Frank Rabeyrolles decided to release a new album and with it, a desire to bare himself a little more. Between Experimental Pop, Folk Lo fi, Ambient, Frank never wanted or needed to choose. The sequel arrives 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 its beginnings. In 2022 and 2023 he composed Boat Songs and Minor Blue, bittersweet ballads, in chiaroscuro, built around clear and concise guitars accompanied by Romain Delorme, Sebastien Pasquet in Guitar/Bass/Drums Trio. In early 2024 Frank Rabeyrolles returns to the solitary work of the Home studio in which he lends himself to cultivating a gentle schizophrenia between tenderness, sound roundness, echoes, spleen and hopes. In conversations, his magnificent latest record was released in February 2025 on French label Araki Records and Wool Recordings. Built around acoustic guitars and discreetly ”electronic” textures, it is a lofi songwriting album completely assumed. Sometimes classical, sometimes bedroom oriented this album crosses indie music without complex, both melancholic and sometimes joyful without academicism and fear.
Your dream, taken from the recording session of In conversations, will be out on Wool Recordings on May 14th.