Papooz’s Ulysse Cottin & Armand Penicaut were originally thrown together as teenagers during boozy gatherings of literary obsessives in Paris. Regularly bunking off from Literature studies at the Sorbonne, Penicault would meet up with Cottin at the city’s Luxembourg Gardens. Early and altogether more earnest aspirations – made whilst outrunning the garden’s guards in a haze of weed smoke – to create a political zine together were soon ditched in favor of finessing the demos the pair had instead begun writing.
Step into the slinky and funky fresh word of Papooz on their new single, “Don’t You Think It’d Be Nice?”. With a pleasant and welcoming croon, the duo creates a circus-like sun-filled sonic word of jangly guitar and Mac DeMarco-like laidback-ness. “Don’t You Think It’d Be Nice?” is an instant slacker rock anthem, radiating good vibes.
“We wrote and recorded the album between New York and Paris with the American songwriter/producer Jesse Harris. We worked really fast in what felt like stream of consciousness, writing and producing a song a day for a couple of weeks. We already had the album name in mind (RESONATE in capital letters) and knew we wanted to explore the concept of resonance in music.”
