Hailing from France, Billet Doux take their name from the 17th-century expression, meaning ‘secret love letter’. The duo apply that emotionally charged feeling into their music, creating a tender intensity.
The latest single from their forthcoming album Superbloom is Here Again, Maybe Tokyo is a song about escape and uncertainty. Opening with a strummed guitar and tight clipped drums, the pair’s male-female duet creates a playful sense of excitement, amplified by moments of drama — a sudden burst of reverb, for example. Joyous synths lead you into the song’s chorus, and the whole thing has a dreamy mid-00s vibe.
Billet Doux are Kaycie and Pierre, and together they are partners not just in music, but in life. Maybe Tokyo comes off the back of the success of their prior single, Two Scorpios, which received prominent placement on curated playlists by both Spotify and Apple Music. On their latest single, they envisage a woman trapped in a cult in a remote American town, inspired to leave but uncertain where to go. The uncharted world of Tokyo holds appeal — promising precisely because it is unknowable.
Check out Maybe Tokyo below.
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