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French band

Rendez-Vous
Rendez-Vous performs at Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris
Background information
Origin	Paris, France
Genres	Post-punk
Years active	2012 (2012)–present
Labels	Zappruder Records, AVANT! Records, Crybaby, Wedge, ATF

Members	Francis Mallari Elliot Berthault Maxime Gendre Simon Dubourg

Rendez-Vous is a post-punk French band from Paris, France, formed in 2012.

History

Rendez-Vous was founded in 2012 by Francis Mallari and Elliot Bethault. A few months later, they added Maxime Gendre and Simon Dubourg. The band released their first EP in 2014, Rendez-Vous, for Zappruder Records. The band started touring across Europe in the summer of 2015.

In 2016, Rendez-Vous released a second EP, Distance, mixed by Ben Greenberg from The Men, for their new label AVANT! Records. The self-titled single "Distance" was included in Les Inrockuptibles magazine's "100 best songs of the year".

In 2017, the single "The Others" was used by Burger Records to represent France for the Burger World Compilation.

In June 2018, Rendez-Vous released "Double Zero", extracted from their first LP, Superior State. The title track was released on September 14. On October 24, it released "Sentimental Animal" with a video clip in which members of the band appeared for the first time. Clash named it track of the day.

Superior State

Rendez-Vous' first album, Superior State, was released on 26 October 2018 on the group's own label, Artefact, in co-production with the Parisian label CryBaby.

Superior State ranked number 1 in Post-Punk.com's list of the best albums of 2018. Les Inrockuptibles ranked the album third in its 2018 "TOP 20 Chansons". Rendez-Vous is the first French group in this ranking.

Discography

Rendez-Vous (2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Others"	3:41
2.	"Plasticity"	3:11
3.	"White Dress"	3:26
4.	"Donna"	4:31
5.	"Youth"	5:04
Total length:		18:26

Distance (2016)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Distance"	3:28
2.	"Workout"	4:34
3.	"Foreseen Death"	4:40
4.	"Euroshima"	3:42
5.	"Demian"	3:44
6.	"Ignorance & Cruelty"	4:49
Total length:		26:28

Superior State (2018)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Double Zero"
2.	"Paralysed"
3.	"Sentimental Animal"
4.	"Last Stop"
5.	"Superior State"
6.	"Crisis"
7.	"Middle Class"
8.	"Lakes"
9.	"Exuviæ"
10.	"Order Of Baël"
Total length:		42:16

Downcast (2024)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"aiw777"	4:39
2.	"Sheer"	2:54
3.	"Downcast"	4:04
4.	"Dye And Retry"	2:37
5.	"Ur Cross"	3:20
6.	"Nothing."	4:37
7.	"Smoke'Em Heads"	3:23
8.	"Top Range DNA"	2:49
9.	"The House Has Burned Down"	3:04
10.	"Stay A Rat"	3:26
11.	"Carry The Zero"	4:36
Total length:		39:33

References

"La découverte du lab #89 : Rendez-Vous". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-04.
^ "Rendez-vous, le groupe français qui remet le post-punk au goût du jour". FIGARO (in French). 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
^ "Check Out This New Video By French Synthpunk Band Rendez-Vous". Noisey (in Danish). 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
"Rendez-Vous - Distance EP". The 405. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
"Notre playlist 2016 : écoutez les 100 chansons de l'année". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-04.
"Le groupe français Rendez-Vous puise dans l'héritage cold-wave pour remettre le post-punk au gout du jour". France Inter (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
"Elliot Berthault et Maxime Gendre, musiciens". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
"Burger World France - Indiepoprock". www.indiepoprock.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-11.
"[Avant-première] Un nouveau morceau de Rendez Vous en écoute". New Noise Magazine (in French). 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
Export, Oui Love by Bureau (2018-09-14). "RENDEZ-VOUS 'Superior State' - Oui Love - New French Music". Oui Love - New French Music. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
"Track Of The Day 24/10 - Rendez-Vous". Clash Magazine. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
"Post-Punk.com Best Releases of 2018 - Post-Punk.com". Retrieved 2019-04-09.

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