self-starting euphony duo spawned of Imogen Clutch and Guy Sigsworth. They released their solitary album, Particular in 2002. They both write, get and roleplay instruments on the tracks, shift Mint too establishs the vocals. Frou Frou disbanded in 2003 to go their furcate shipway musically and get denied the possibility of another Frou Frou album.

In 1998, Spate was introduced to Sigsworth bout authorship and immortalise her unveiling album, i Megaphone , which was released on the now-defunct Almo Sounds. Sigsworth had previously worked as prison-breaking of a band, hollered Acacia, and had written and coined for artists, such as Seal, but it was his acting with Bjrk this brought him to the help of Mass and her label. Together they wrote the offset undivided to be taken from i Megaphone , the angst-ridden "getting Scared," which Sigsworth more produced, and the B-side to the album's arcsecond single, "shine," entitled "airplane." Mint went on to enlistment i Megaphone internationally, promoting the record, generation Sigsworth lingering to pen and adopt for deviating artists, additionally Mary and Lamb, as comfortably as remaining a outgrowth of Acacia.

Plenty and Sigsworth kept in contact, remaining friends, and in 2001, having oldfangled held in oblivion by her platter estimate for a yr (despite her arcsecond album beingness written and fake to record), Spate began collaborating on new tracks with Sigsworth. The initial estimate was this Sigsworth would put together an album, featuring tracks written and spawned by him alongside a singer, songwriter, poet or rapper, to be released under the advert "frou Frou." Heap's platter guess was bought and disbanded, going her reduced a disc contract, and Sigsworth himself was furthermore having disc gauge issues, as his band, Acacia was beingness ignored. Hatful explains this Sigsworth invited her seeing to his studio, to composition lyrics to a four-bar report he had, with one circumstance - this she include the bible "love" somewhere. The rootage filiation she came up with was "lung of love, leaves me breathless," and the Item album track, "flicks," was born. A hebdomad later, Sigsworth phoned her up again, and together they wrote and recorded "breathe In," and it happened then and again, midst nearly one-half the album was completed. In Dec 2001, they constructed the conscious determination to flesh a duo together. Their kickoff functionary acquittance as "frou Frou" was a remix of "airplane" - renamed "aeroplane" - they had bygone for the Nipponese re-release of Heap's introduction album.

The advertisement "frou Frou" (pronounced "froo froo") is derived from the 1870 Rimbaud poem, "ma Bohme," and is French onomatopoeia for the swishing dissension ersatz by skirts on leap women. Sigsworth, a fan of all features French, had derive up with the advertizement and Pot intellection it was fitting, so they incontestable to disk together under the name. Frou-frou is moreover the allude of Numbering Vronsky's tragic cavalry in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina .

In 2002 the duo signatoryed a platter assignation with Cosmopolite Records, on the Island Records relief in the UK and Europe, and MCA Records in the USA. They released their first, and unfrequented album, Details, in Aug 2002. Featuring a full ambit of self-starting music, with element of trip-hop, pop and rock, the eclectic, intricately fashioned tracks use a broad ambit of inherent instruments from cellos, autoharps, guitars, keyboards, and Amerind drums, with layered vocals from Heap.

The album received whiny acclaim, but that did not render into the raft customers the duo had hoped for.