Fran's Debut Album 'A Private Picture' Out Now!
Fran's debut record is finally here! Out wide today on LP or streaming at your fave digital hub. We're truly honored to help usher such beautiful tunes into the wide open. Fran is on the road this month and more in the Spring, dates below and if in Chicago join us at The Hideout on November 23rd to celebrate. I
Fran penned an essay for Talkhouse on journaling & the road that led her to the record: read it here. And don't just take our word for it...
“On repeat in my brain for a week but I love it.” - NPR
'Beautifully languid and effortlessly catchy." - Stereogum
"A churning indie rock anthem." - Brooklyn Vegan
"feels like a fitting soundtrack to a breezy day—or a daydream" - Paste Magazine
The trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicago’s Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios –when you hear them, it’s a conversation. It’s therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core, Fran’s music is about sharing a truth -–telling it, confessing it, yelling it—in the service of human connection. Or, as Jacobson puts it, “I feel that I am a songwriter for the same reason I wanted to be an actor. I want to tell the truth. I want to challenge myself to get closer and closer to the core of an experience, an emotion- I want to say it, sing it, in a way that says exactly what it is. I cry when I write songs because I am constantly making discoveries, about myself, about the world, about the best way to convey and connect and get closer.”
1st Pressing
200 - Translucent Red Vinyl
300 - Black Vinyl
Fran on Tour!
11/15 Philadelphia, PA @ Anthorna Gallery
11/16 Washington, DC @ 7 Drum Live
11/17 Asheville, NC @ Beau Dome
11/18 Athens, GA @ Flicker Bar
11/19 Atlanta, GA @ DM
11/20 Louisville, KY @ Kaiju
11/23 Chicago, IL @ Hideout Inn
01.18 Chicago, IL @ TKN Festival w/ Hand Habits
03.16 - 20 Austin, TX @ SXSW