Dividing a vinyl record with Sea Side and River Side betrays an obvious feeling for all things liquid. On his last album, « Plaine inondable », released in 2009, Fránçois sung Be Water, a delicious and watery song backed up by a secret Basque choir. As frank as the smile given by Jean-Pierre Léaud at the very end of « 400 Hundred Blows » when he arrives at the sea for the first time, Fránçois’ music confronts lightly with reality and the elements which surround it.

Being the first Domino French signature, Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains are ready to spread their wings over indie pop’s vast international landscape. Open and extremely sensitive, these twelve songs, as evidenced by Les plus beaux, a genuine and already precious love hymn, display graceful and surprising arrangements, with their watercolours like melodies. Like an Atlantic Narcissus or a broken wing Icarus, the sleeve express some sense of romantic journeys.