Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains releases new single "Holly Golightly"

"Holly Golightly" marks the first release from Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains in 2021, following last year's lead single "Coucou".

The new single got its name from Audrey Hepburn's character in Truman Capote's Breakfast At Tiffany's film.

Frànçois says of the new release, ""Holly Golightly" refers to the character in the Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Taken from the point of view of a writer fascinated by an endearing neighbouring friend, the narrator keeps his passion silent and writes letters instead ("crashing into the stationary"). The song was written on a cheap acoustic guitar very much like the one Audrey Hepburn uses to sing Moon River in the film adaptation of the novella. Renaud Letang mixed this song with Jonathan Richman in mind. I now imagine Jonathan walking arm in arm with Holly in downtown Manhattan. This song would be a great soundtrack to their breakfast."

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."