Frank Rabeyrolles - In conversations (2025) [Hi-Res]

By Darryl Sterdan
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Little is known about Frank Rabeyrolles. A discreet character and an unclassifiable type of the French music scene, he got noticed in 2004 with Life Behind The Window, the first album of his project Double U. His dreamy and hybrid music, oscillating between pop, electronic and songwriting, surprises and seduces.
A prolific and insatiable artist, Rabeyrolles released a solid succession of albums under Double U — then Franklin — on a number of different labels. At the end of 2011, Rabeyrolles decided to release a new album under his real name — and fittingly, he decided to bare himself a little more. The sequel arrived in 2021 with A Ghost By The Sea, a record that endowed with a melodic and contemplative obsession.

In 2022 and 2023 he composed Boat Songs and Minor Blue, bittersweet ballads in chiaroscuro built around clear and concise guitars, backed by a rhythm section. In 2024, Rabeyrolles returned to the solitary world of his home studio, cultivating a gentle schizophrenia between tenderness, sound roundness, echoes and hopes.

In Conversations is built around acoustic guitars and discreetly electronic textures. It is a lo-fi songwriters’ album — sometimes classical, sometimes bedroom-oriented, sometimes melancholic and sometimes joyful, but without academicism and fear.”