Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains shares new single, "Holly Golightly"

Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains is very happy to welcome 2021 with a new single, “Holly Golightly.” Named after the main character in Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s, it touches on the album’s key themes of romance and relationships in metropolitan cities, while the accompanying visualizer features illustrations of Audrey Hepburn’s Holly portrayal. “Holly Golightly” follows first single, “Coucou,” both from the forthcoming album, Banane Bleue, out on February 26.

On the track, Frànçois said: “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 (French for “Blue Banana”) is a nomadic and truly European record, hailing from rented workspaces in some of the continent’s key cities - Berlin, Athens and Paris - and recorded with instruments that were often borrowed from likeminded musicians. It was written solely by Frànçois Marry, produced by close collaborator and Weird World artist Jaakko Eino Kalevi, whilst Renaud Letang (Feist, Gonzales, Connan Mockasin) mixed the album.

The album title refers to the “blue banana” geographical theory originally conceived in the 1980s, which groups together a corridor of Europe’s biggest cities. It states that the blurring of these cities’ boundaries has resulted in the formation of one massive, interconnected megalopolis. Expanding on the theory, Frànçois poeticized it, picturing a luminescent blue banana shape that you can see from space with vibrant, ethereal currents that surround and bind us. It explores common cultural and romantic ground, creating an album full of missed meetings and misunderstandings. Read a quote from Frànçois on the Blue Banana theory here, and watch the video for "Coucou" below.