Frou Frou

Frou Frou was born in 2003 when electronica producer and songwriter Guy Sigsworth, feeling dissatisfied with his own artistic output so far - his band Acacia were largely ignored - decided he needed to make an album with a "vocal he loved", and asked Imogen Heap to work with him on a single. Heap and Sigsworth had met years earlier when Heap was in the process of recording her debut solo album i Megaphone (1998) and Sigsworth was working with Björk. Heap asked Sigsworth to work with her on the album and together they wrote and produced two of the singles, "Getting Scared" and "Airplane", and remained friends after.

Sigsworth's original idea behind Frou Frou - the name was taken from a verse in a Baudelaire poem and is a French onomatopoeia -- had been to make an album of collaborations, featuring tracks written and produced with other artists who were songwriters, poets, singers and rappers. The first artist Sigsworth approached was Heap and together they came up with Frou Frou's first track "Flicks". A week later Sigsworth called Heap again to write and record another track and the single "Breathe In" was created. This continued until the pair had more than half the album completed and decided to make it formal and become Frou Frou.

Frou Frou's only album, Details, was released in 2002 on Island Records (UK) and MCA (USA) to moderate commercial success but much critical acclaim. Frou Frou's biggest commercial success has come from the use of many of their tracks from Details in several popular movies and TV shows including: Garden State, Scrubs, CSI: Miami, Dawson's Creek and Queer As Folk. Heap and Sigsworth parted after the release but reformed briefly to record a special cover version of the Bonnie Tyler hit "Holding Out For a Hero" for the Shrek 2 Soundtrack.