New Audio: French Nancy Shares Broodingly Chilly “The Guarantee”

Hackney, London-based post-punk duo French Nancy — Jack Gooding and Joel Friel — features former members of Bear Muda and Paris, Texas. Drawing from Motorama, Black Marble, Topographies, The Cure, Joy Division and New Order, the London-based duo’s sound pairs post punk urgency with krautrock-inspired rhythms and introspective lyricism.

The duo’s latest single “The Guarantee” is anchored around a similar krautrock-like motorik pulse and reverb-soaked guitar attack as their previously released “The Vow” and “The Lovers” but while arguably being one of the broodingly chillier songs they’ve released to date with the single seemingly nodding at the likes of Soft Kill, Molchat Doma, PLOHO, Sei Still, Whispering Sons and others. “It’s a song about staying inside a negative feeling rather than trying to fix it, and the production matches: opening cold and lean, with each layer adding to its final angry crescendo,” the duo explain.

Written and recorded at Hackney-based Gun Factory Studios by the duo, “The Guarantee” makes the start of the band’s most prolific stretch to date, with the band planning to release a batch of singles over the next five months, ahead of a forthcoming UK tour later this year.

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