Feldup is Félix Dupuis, a French songwriter working in a lo-fi indie rock tradition that leaves room for brass and careful arrangement. Towards Happiness was tracked at The Apiary Studio with a small band, two drummers across different songs, guitars and piano shared between Alexandre Wettstein and Pierre Miceli, and features a three-piece horn section on four tracks. The production keeps things raw enough that you hear the room, but there's space and separation when the horns arrive.
The writing leans introspective without tipping into slowcore. "Running on Empty" and "Cover My Ears" use the brass to open up the texture rather than announce a climax. Dupuis's voice sits forward in the mix, conversational rather than strained, and the guitars stay clean or just slightly driven. Tempos vary but nothing rushes. The album opens and closes with short pieces labelled intro and epilogue, which gives the whole thing a considered shape without feeling too literary about it.
This is for people who liked early Bright Eyes or Sparklehorse but want something less obviously American, and for anyone tracking the overlap between French indie rock and lo-fi recording that doesn't flatten everything into bedroom pop. It's patient music that earns its title without labouring the point.
