Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains announce new LP with lead cut "Coucou"

"Coucou" is the first new release from Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains since their 2017 album Solide Mirage, although lead vocalist Frànçois Marry did release a solo album titled Fleurs du Mal in 2018.

Marry says of the lead single, "I hate this word, "coucou" (which loosely translates as ‘hey there’ in French) because, for me, it expresses a form of indifferent, slightly fake naivety. What’s even more absurd is when it comes from someone with whom you were once madly in love."

Banane Bleue was written and recorded across various rented workspaces in Berlin, Athens and Paris. Close collaborator Jaakko Eino Kalevi produced the LP, while Renaud Letang (Feist, Gonzales, Connan Mockasin) mixed the album.

The title of the album is based on the 'blue banana' concept, which Marry explains further, "I have often asked myself what my relationship history would be like if I had been born on another continent. Our idea of love, which comes from the 18th and 19th centuries, is ingrained in the walls and aromas of cities, cafes, nights out in bars, text messages, artificial lights, romantic getaways and city breaks; as if European electricity emitted some kind of romantic scent."

Tracklist:

1. The Foreigner
2. Coucou
3. Julie
4. Par Le Passé
5. Holly Go Lightly
6. Lee-Ann & Lucy
7. Tourne Autour
8. Revu
9. Gold & Lips
10. Dans Un Taxi