Les Plus Beaux will be released as the second single from Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains’ first album for Domino, E Volo Love. With French lyrics and skittering African influences, the elegant and fragile album opener will be available as a digital download on the same day as E Volo Love, 23rd January 2012.
The accompanying video features Fránçois and his band and was filmed in Berlin by Edward DeVere
Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains will be playing shows in the UK in January and February, with a London show at the Slaughtered Lamb on January 25th and a show as support to Mercury nominees King Creosote & Jon Hopkins at the Shepherds Bush Empire on the 2nd February. Dates with ticket links are as follows:
22/01: Glasgow – Oran Mor (Celtic Connections)
25/01: London – Slaughtered Lamb (release party)
26/01: Brighton – Green Door Store (Vive la France Festival) – free
27/01: Bristol – Motocycle Showroom
28/01: Gateshead – The Sage Gateshead (Hall Two)
01/02: Reading – South Street
02/02: London – Shepherds Bush Empire (supporting King Creosote & Jon Hopkins)