French For Cartridge

Listening Party IV

LONDON 02.12.16
51°51’97” N 0°07’57”W

We’ve had a number of Golden Hour Listening Parties now, the latest one by the river in Greenwich, where this video was taken.

They’ve all been quite special occasions. It’s quite a beautiful and sometimes intense experience to listen to something together with other people in such a concentrated way while the surroundings get darker or lighter, depending on the time of day.

We’ve got quite a few listening parties planned over the next coming months and some of you have already been in touch to organise your own. If you’d like to do that, please get in touch on info (at) frenchforcartridge (dot) com

You can read more about our new album ‘The Golden Hour’ and the thinking behind the Golden Hour Listening Parties HERE.

Listening Parties

We’re hosting Golden Hour Listening Parties to launch our new album ‘ The Golden Hour’, which is out now!

02.12.16 London/City of London EC4M
02.12.16 London/Greenwich SE10
11.12.16 Luxembourg City

15.12.16 London/City of London EC3M
16.12.16 London/City of London
22.12.16 Helsinki
31.12.16 London/Wapping E1W
01.01.17 London/Canary Wharf E14
08.01.17 London SE1

golden hour noun
- In medicine, the golden hour is the first hour after a traumatic injury, when emergency treatment is most likely to be successful.
- In photography, the golden hour is a period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer, which makes for dramatic skies and surreal cityscapes.

As we were finishing this album, we realised we had made a much darker and more political album than we had initially set out to do taking in subjects like war, loss and the state of the environment.

The songs very much reflect our current state of mind and we are happy to be more vocal about the issues we feel strongly about as we find that you can’t stay quiet any longer with the way things seem to progress. The title of the album refers to the first hour after a traumatic injury, when treatment is most likely to be successful as well as to the short time after sunrise or before sunset when daylight is redder and softer, creating dramatic skies and surreal cityscapes. As such we find it a suitable title for a call to action on environmental and political issues at this hour when the problem has been identified and there still is a chance to fix it.

This album will benefit from quiet listening and we want to bring people together for some real-life social sharing. So, to launch the album we will hold Golden Hour Listening Parties in outside spaces, where the light hits the surrounding environment in particularly spectacular ways during the said golden hours. In this way, we hope to encourage friend and fans to take a break from their busy lives and come together for a moment of contemplation and come up with a plan of action; discuss what needs attending around us - in our neighbourhoods, our countries or further afield - and do something about it.

If you like the sound of it, come along to one of the parties scheduled above or host your own party. Details on how to do this can be found HERE or by sending us an email on info (at) frenchforcartridge (dot) com

The Golden Hour

Our new album featuring CHROMA is out today!

golden hour noun
- In medicine, the golden hour is the first hour after a traumatic injury, when emergency treatment is most likely to be successful.
- In photography, the golden hour is a period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer, which makes for dramatic skies and surreal cityscapes.

Physical copies of ‘The Golden Hour’ have sold out on pre-order, but you can get a digital copy either on iTunes or in our own shop.

This album won’t be available to stream anywhere in the first instance.

Instead, we’re inviting you to a more social form of listening by hosting a number of Golden Hour Listening Parties in various outside spaces across the globe, where the light hits the surrounding environment in particularly spectacular ways during the golden hours of the title.  

We hope this will be an opportunity for a moment of contemplation around the themes of an album, which turned out altogether darker and more political than we had planned. The playful melodies are still there, of course, but this is perhaps a more intricate collection of songs that reflects our turbulent times by weaving in topics of war, loss and the state of the environment.

Find out more about the thinking behind the title HERE and look out for an announcement about the first batch of parties very soon.

iTunes - http://apple.co/2fZqJMk
Our shop - http://bit.ly/2gt8LCP

Artwork by Damien Beaton

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is release day!

The first Golden Hour Listening Party will be at 8am.

51°30'46.8"N 0°05'48.9"W

Listening

On Friday we release our new album The Golden Hour!

Physical copies are already sold out on pre-order and we’re doing an ‘Adele’ i.e. not streaming it in the first instance. Instead, we’re inviting you to a more social form of listening by organising Golden Hour Listening Parties around the UK and elsewhere.

We’ve had a few try-outs already and it’s been quite special, so keep your ears to the ground and eyes peeled for more information about this in the next few days!

Pre-order

Our new album “The Golden Hour” is out next week!

Physical copies have already sold out, unfortunately, but you can still pre-order a digital copy in our shop.

End of the World

It feels poignant that our new single called ‘End of the World’ comes out this week, coinciding with Armistice Day as well as the election of the new American president.

A year ago we started recording a new album. As things progressed, we realized we had written quite a dark and politically charged set of songs taking in subjects like war, loss, the destruction of our environment and depression. This is not something we set out to do - we’re quite a happy bunch - but in the prevailing climate, it felt like we had to say something.

Little did we know that a year, a referendum and an election later, things would look so much worse.

So, here it is, a song called ’ End of the World, written about a mother who crashed herself and her three children into an oncoming bus. This, whilst talking on the phone to her husband, who was sitting on that very same bus trying to talk her out of it. 

The song also took inspiration from one of the persons interviewed in Werner Herzog’s movie ‘Encounters at the End of the World’. Set in the Antarctic, this man, a refugee from former Yugoslavia, tells us how he always has a bag packed, ready to leave even when he has reached as far away from civilisation as possible. Just in case the worst will happen.

At the moment it feels like we all need to have our bags packed.

H & C xx

French For Cartridge feat. CHROMA
‘End of the World’
Taken from the forthcoming album ‘The Golden Hour’

PAY FOR IT - http://apple.co/2eYqEpr
LISTEN FOR FREE - http://bit.ly/2eP3WCA

First listen

“An exceptional first single from the third LP”, says Electric Sounds of Joy.

The first single, “End of the World”, off our new album will be out Nov 11th. You can already hear it streamed over on their site.

Pre-orders

Our new album that we’ve worked on for the last year was delivered this morning to everyone who pre-ordered!

Next month will see the official release - stay tuned for more details about that soon.

The Guardian

Look!

We made it into The Guardian thanks to this playlist made by The Wedding Present’s David Gedge.

And the new album, you ask? We’ve just listened to the last mix of the remaining song. More about it all in a jiffy!