| Rendez-Vous | |
| Origin: | Paris, France |
| Genre: | Post-punk |
| Years Active: | –present |
| Label: | Zappruder Records, AVANT! Records, Crybaby, Wedge, ATF |
Rendez-Vous is a post-punk French band from Paris, France, formed in 2012.
Rendez-Vous was founded in 2012 by Francis Mallari and Elliot Bethault. A few months later, they added Maxime Gendre and Simon Dubourg.[1] The band released their first EP in 2014, Rendez-Vous, for Zappruder Records.[2] 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,[3] for their new label AVANT! Records.[4] The self-titled single "Distance" was included in Les Inrockuptibles magazine's "100 best songs of the year".[5] [6] [7]
In 2017, the single "The Others" was used by Burger Records to represent France for the Burger World Compilation.[8]
In June 2018, Rendez-Vous released "Double Zero", extracted from their first LP, Superior State.[9] The title track was released on September 14.[10] 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.[11]
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.[12] Les Inrockuptibles ranked the album third in its 2018 "TOP 20 Chansons". Rendez-Vous is the first French group in this ranking.