Ultimately, little is known about Frank Rabeyrolles. A discreet and unclassifiable figure on the French music scene, he first gained attention in 2004 with Life Behind the Window, the debut album from his project Double U. His dreamy, hybrid music, oscillating between pop, electronic, and songwriting, astonishes and seduces. He has been featured in Les Inrockuptibles and Libération and was named Album of the Month by Trax.
A prolific and insatiable artist, Frank Rabeyrolles has released a solid succession of albums first under Double U and then Franklin on various labels such as Sonar Kollektiv, Nocturne, Karat, and Plug Research, Wool Recordings His creative approach over the years, and now decades, could be seen as a yearning for artistic ritual driven by passion, but also as an existential necessity…
At the end of 2011, Frank Rabeyrolles decided to release a new album under his real name, and with it, a desire to reveal himself a little more. Between Experimental Pop, Lo-Fi Folk, and Ambient, Frank has never wanted or needed to choose.
The follow-up comes 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 his debut.
In 2022 and 2023, he composed Boat Songs and Minor Blue, bittersweet, chiaroscuro ballads built around clear and concise guitars, accompanied by Romain Delorme and Sébastien Pasquet in a Guitar/Bass/Drums Trio.
It features themes such as the tension between escaping the world and the desire to fit into it differently, as well as the relationship with time, sometimes redemptive, sometimes alienating but also the wide open spaces imbued with Folk/Americana culture. In early 2024, Frank Rabeyrolles returned to solitary work in the home studio, cultivating a gentle schizophrenia between tenderness, sonic roundness, echoes, spleen, and hope. The album « In Conversations » was released in February 2025 on Araki Records. After two albums recorded in a trio/quartet format, this new album marks a return to a certain pop bricolage and organic work created around layers of guitars. We find obsessions such as buried memories, loves that resurface in the form of dreams in a ghostly way, the desire to stay alive in a world in which we hardly recognize ourselves.
It’s 2025/2026 and here’s a new album »Slow » which will be released in February on the French label Too Good To Be true. We often expect change from a musician who has a reputation for being prolific. It’s in the interstices, in the sound, the arrangement and the writing that we will have to listen with this new album entirely produced and mixed by Frank Rabeyrolles We also find our traveling companions Romain Delorme on bass, Sébastien Pasquet on drums and some appearances from Rémi Saboul. Here is a first extract / »all is in your head’‘ while waiting for winter and the album.
Frank Rabeyrolles 