Cutting his teeth on tour with veteran singer-songwriter Renaud before the release of 2017 debut Pourvu, Gauvain Sers quickly struck a chord with French pop audiences. Eloquently threading intimate and sociopolitical moments around affecting guitar chords, his songbook brims with resonant human stories about youth radicalisation (“Mon fils est parti au djihad”) and the people left behind in today’s France (2019’s Les oubliés). Spanning folk-tinged serenades and synthy choruses, peppered with humour and poetic wit, Sers’ insightful tributes to unsung corners of life travel far and wide.