French For Cartridge

We’re in the top half of Rocksucker’s 100 best albums of 2013!

“Ridiculously eccentric, and jolly lovely with it. It’s rare for something to be quaint and berserk at the same time, but this succeeds valiantly. This is completely off its rocker and we bloody loves it for it.”

Read the interview we did with them in October here.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

2013 was a great French For Cartridge year!

We finished and released a new album called “We Humans”, which both sounds and looks beautiful. There was a wonderful fun fayre in a medieval church tower to celebrate its release, there were library tours and beach performances, a Rough Trade instore and a cooking show as well as fantastic videos for each song made by some very talented friends.

A few weeks ago we also released a digital EP to round things off featuring a few remixes and one new song called “Frequency 349”, the first thing we’ve recorded since the album.

Listen to the new song and watch all the videos below here. 

None of this would have been possible without some truly wonderful people.

THANK YOU: Akinori Fujimoto, Anssi Växby, S. Husky Höskulds, Damien Beaton, John Rogers, Mikko Gordon, James Bull,  Benji Kontz, Dorna Aslanzadeh, Daniel & Team Cleopatra II, Julie Marthe Hoffmann, Riccardo Arena, Ebba Erikzon, Keiko Sumida, Triona Ryan, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Pizzazz Handbell Trio, Sam Taylor, Joanne Gibson, Jon Roskilly, Barney Samson, Laetitia Stott, Nina Pottell and everyone else who supported us in making and promoting this little piece of art. Let’s make another one soon! 

Have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year!

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

“Perennially creative”, says Subba-cultcha about us, the new EP, remixes and videos!

Follow the links to hear the EP or listen to the Collectress remix of “Old Books” on the latest svelte selection, where we made it on to the svelte favourites of 2013-show.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

This is the video for “Hot Air Ballon”, that GoldFlakePaint premiered last week.

Directed by Triona Ryan, it completes the 12 videos off “We Humans” and is also available on the new digital EP that’s out now. Buy it on iTunes or watch all the other videos on YouTube.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

“The ever delicate French For Cartridge.”

The new Hot Air Balloon EP and video is up on The Organ today! Sean and Marina were one of the first to champion us way back when and it’s always great to see it up there on their site.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

GoldFlakePaint premieres the new video for Hot Air Balloon!

“It feels mystical and oddly haunting at the same time, like it’s telling a story in a language we can’t understand.”

This video, directed by Triona Ryan, is the last one of the twelve We Humans-videos to be revealed - check it out here.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

Our library tour has come to an end and we’re wrapping up for winter, but there’s the new Hot Air Balloon EP as well as a few videos from “We Humans” still to be revealed.

“Old Books” is the closing track on the album and not only did it inspire us to head on the road for a string of performances in libraries around the country, but it also gave us the idea for our We Humans Gallery. The song draws a picture of how everyone has a life story waiting to be told, just like old books in a library. So, over the course of the last few months we have collected photos and advice from you people - some of which can be seen passing by in this little clip. 

If you want delve into it deeper, flick through all the posts on here or search for the WeHumansGallery-tag. 

When you’ve watched the video below, also check out the Collectress remix, which is out now on the Hot Air Balloon EP!

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

We talked to Amelia’s Magazine about hot air balloons, couples in bands, studying at Goldsmiths, writing operas and Damien Beaton’s artwork.

They also premiere the new video for ‘Old Books’, which Collectress remixes beautifully on the new iTunes EP that’s out this week. And there’s illustrations by Antonia Parker that draw on the video and our recent superhero outing!

Read the article and watch the video here.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

We have a new iTunes EP out today!!

It features ‘Hot Air Balloon’ off our latest album plus some excellent remixes by Chik Budo, Collectress and The Chap plus a new song called 'Frequency 349’.

As always, Damien Beaton has designed the beautiful cover art.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!

We have a new digital EP coming out next week!

Named after the slow burning live favourite that is “Hot Air Balloon”, it features the lead track as well as recent remixes by The Chap, Chik Budo and Collectress plus one brand new song called “Frequency 349”.

Now, we had grand plans of a French For Cartridge-themed hot air balloon ride to launch the EP and event sent our mascots - a choir of Russian dolls we have at our gigs - off to the British School of Ballooning. But unfortunately, these plans were blown away by the big storm last month and the poor little girls have been waiting for clear winter weather in the office in Surrey since then. We’ll keep you posted how they get on, but here’s what they got up to in the meantime.

New album “We Humans" out now - available from our shop, Rough Trade, Amazon, iTunes or your local record store!