Frances And The Majesties Shares New Single 'Velvet - Special Version'

Frances and the Majesties are a group of seven musicians from Italy, the United Kingdom, and Morocco who explore 60's Rock&Roll psychedelic sounds with a modern twist, straddling the line between shoegaze, garage rock, psychedelic revival, blues western saloon, and post-USSR aesthetics.

A fresh and creative take on a watershed moment in music history. After a year off, London-based seven-piece Frances and the Majesties return with their self-titled comeback EP, Frances and the Majesties, published by Act Cool Records. The five songs, recorded at home during the lockdown, are a monument to a difficult moment in music, an honest acknowledgement to the disappointment of a cancelled Moroccan tour that nearly split the band up.

The 60s inspirations of Frances and the Majesties reappear in this EP, but with surf guitar riffs, vocal components of Italian female singer-songwriters from the 1970s, such as Nada and Patty Pravo, and their characteristic modern psychedelic sound. A clarinet of nearly mediaeval quality has been added as a fresh sonority to complement the band's nasty saxophone.

The outcome is a cinematic experience, enhanced by DIY recording choices that put the songs in the living room of the North London warehouse where they were developed and recorded. It's a piece that speaks via its gritty texture, a well-crafted lo-fi production that tries for realism by employing ambisonic and binaural recording technologies.

Frances and the Majesties' newest EP is essentially an attempt to reproduce the sensation of a live concert, which was accomplished through a delicate mix that relied heavily on microphone placement.

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