After the bite of Cobra, first LP which reinvented a hand-stitched French pop, with a princely fabric and a Gainsbourgian phrasing, François Club is back at it (in silver) on Nickel Chrome. Multi-instrumentalist producer, as comfortable in electroacoustic and experimental composition as in laidback synthpop, the all-terrain artist has gold at his fingertips. With one foot in classical music, another in song and his head turned upside down in rave parties, his youth in Toulouse is woven with influences from all sides. With the creation of his own label, Disque Hyper Souple, the unclassifiable producer now builds bridges between ambient, electroacoustic and synthetic dreampop sung in French. Gorged with cold sunshine and unrequited love, Nickel Chrome is the emblem of ambivalent. Skilfully hemmed in with silky synthesizers and suave vocals, this new spring-summer collection never chooses sides: Italo disco or Haruomi Hosono, Sébastien Tellier or Étienne Daho, Alain Chamfort or Flavien Berger, Brancusi or Hokusaï... Sophisticated behind their apparent naivety, dreamlike without irony, these songs of innocence with falsely casual lyrics run through your head without respite, opening up the unsuspected horizon of a variety of LSD. Iridescent sunrise and polychrome synthesizers, ethereal tropicalism and melodies cut with aspartame, he praises the derisory and the lightness. Welcome to the multiverse of François Club, whose avatar soars high in a phosphorescent sky.