Description
Release Date Friday 4th December 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Heir to French Touch, French 79 opens a radical new chapter with his fourth album, Close to the Giants. For this project, French 79 relocated his studio deep into the wilderness, standing alone against the elements from high alpine peaks to the open sea. Armed with a portable modular synthesizer, he composed the entire album in the very heart of nature.
Fueled by the raw adrenaline of the elements, French 79 translates the intensity of his emotional journeys into a raw, moving electronic language—navigating from electronica to dance and tech-house, by way of electropop and French Touch.
Far more than an album, it is an intuitive, intense, and compelling logbook of a quest for solitude and human experience, honoring the legacy of French electro pioneers through signature analog arpeggios, hazy synths, and spellbinding melodies.
TRACKLISTING:
A1. Love Among The Sailors
A2. Waypoints
A3. Keep Me Closer
A4. Atlas
B1. The Adventurer
B2. Above The Clouds
B3. Colors Collide
B4. Out of Breathe
C1. Joyride
C2. No Room For Mistakes
C3. White Canopy
C4. X-Alps
D1. Close To The Giants
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