He is nicknamed the lace-maker of pop. He wrote for Vanessa Paradis, the excellent single "Pourtant" from her album Bliss. He chose to live at the opposite end of the world from Paris, on a small piece of land facing the Indian Ocean. And after eight years of silence, his new record is likely to make some noise. Waimarama (near the corner of New Zealand where he has settled) stands out for the precision and intimacy of its moods, placing Franck Monnet in the family of Belin, Albin de la Simone, who are shaping today’s scene, free, uninhibited, wandering and moving.