AllGood Absolute Alternative Records are pleased to share the first remix from New Zealand dream-pop quintet French for Rabbits fourth studio album ‘The Overflow’.
The album released in late 2021, was widely praised by New Zealand music critics and nominated for the 2022 Taite Music Prize, but with a mid-pandemic release date and a three-times rescheduled tour, The Overflow was missed by many of those not already under the spell of the band’s ethereal sound.
Luckily, one of the songs ‘The Outsider’ caught the attention of Aotearoa-born, Berlin-based producer Yvois, who reached out to the band’s vocalist Brooke Singer to ask whether she would be open to a reimagining of the song.
The resulting remix is out digitally on the 3rd of March 2023 breathing new life into an already rewarding collection of songs. Drawing influence from producers such as Ta-Ku and Four Tet, Yvois has recontextualised Brooke’s yearning and heart wrenchingly honest vocals within luscious and soaring pads, an infectious chopped vocal groove and an addictively stumbling kick drum.
“The lyrics grabbed me at a particular moment in my life where I was struggling with a lot of loss and disappointment… It was a joy and an honour to be able to spend so much time with Brooke’s voice. It was like I was able to let her speak for me.”
The remix joins only a handful in the French for Rabbits back catalogue - previous releases include ‘Claimed by the Sea (PLVN remix)’ which has been streamed upwards of 3 million times and two explorations of ‘The Other Side’ by Japanese producer Boys Get Hurt and NZ’s Stray Theories.
Yvois and French For Rabbits are well acquainted, having crossed paths many times when Yvois’ was releasing music under her previous moniker Luckless. In the intervening years, Ivy Rossiter, the producer and composer behind Yvois, relocated to Berlin, and predictably set aside her electric guitar for electronic music’s unavoidable pull.
In Berlin she has also founded and runs a collective for female, trans and nonbinary electronic music producers, called Éclat Crew.