Double u - Pineapple Dream

FOR FANS OF: Tunng / Beach House/ Lali Puna/ Atlas Sound.http://www.wool-recordings.com.

Biography Obsessions and daydreaming, travels and new discoveries, personal and collective adventures... here are in a few words the influences that Double U has been following since his first album "life behind a window" issued in 2004 on Sonar Kollektiv. Year after year his work kept evolving through "Bottle in the sea"(Karat rec) and "Bosphorus" until "The imaginary band", with vibrant colors and plenty of jazz Musician featurings such as Michel Benita . With a short break in 2008 to experience more psychedelic and garage sounds under the name "Franklin" , a new "californian-dreaming" universe took place for us in "Every now and then" . In 2010 let's go back to essentials for Double U...with this new era and a fifth opus "Pineapple dream": this album gets more intimate, with delicate songwriting and elaborate compositions, where the previous one, "the imaginary band" sounded more like an organic experience of a "virutal" band. here new rules of style are being shaken: solar hymn of the eponymus track, sweet pop balads as " I made up my mind" but also presence at the guitar and vocals of Stereolab’s Laeticia Saadier kindly invited on the intro, resuming brilliantly the modern-hybrid pop of what's coming next... others voices come along with Double U, like Camille Vachin, already there for Franklin, or also Suddenly Sunshine, upcoming signature on Wool recordings .. all those ingredients combine well to give this album warmth and personnality. Orinic textures, instrumental pop melancoly, electronic epure.. Have a slice of pineapple dream !  “Double U might have travelled the Information Superhighway rather than lonely desert roads to find inspiration for these electronic ballads, but that’s where his heart really lies. His melancholy vocals over the glitchy electro beats sound like Calexico consoling Prefuse 73 after his woman gone left him and his dawg done died” BBC.co.uk…. / "This album finds Rabeyrolles looking back to the psychedelic folk scene of the late sixties and early seventies, even coming across as a bit Beatles-like on 'Shadows', fusing finely-crafted acoustic balladry with lyrical, jazzy elements. Far from being a mere exercise in retro chic, The Imaginary Band sounds entirely modern” Boomkat…

Tracks :

1. Interludic (Featuring Laetitia Sadier),
2. Eh Bro
3. Pineapple Dream
4. I made up my mind
5. Breathing the wind
6.Ring me
7. Supersize
8. Whatever
9. De-construction
10. The wedding
11. Enough
12. Pianorgano
13. Sweet family
14. Take the bus…

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