Loud Cities Magazine _Issue 3_03_2021

Loud Cities Magazine / #3 MAR 2021 21
PRESS RELEASE
The amazing audio-visual experience
“Beneath the Earth”
by Feu Follet
On Feu Follet’s 3rd album Alban Blaising
does something new with the known
ingredients of the band from Nancy,
France. After two essentially instrumental
albums the sole member of the coldwave/
synthwave project decided to take the
reviewers and bloggers’ advice to heart, to
include vocals and lyrics which were written
and recorded by the respective artists.
Everything is based on the accompanied
comic book that works as a prequel to “La
forêt oubliée”, the second album which was
also released as audio/visual experience in
2020: Following a fox, a boy discovers a
strange stele deep in the woods, which sets
supernatural things in motion. In the end
he is possessed by the stele and the ghost
of a prehistoric shaman appears. Now,
in “Beneath the Earth” Blaising focusses
on the fox which goes through a number
of classical adventures involving all the
creatures you can find on the cover art:
giant snakes, mermaids, the grim reaper, evil
fish, skeletons... Albain drew his influences
from “The Neverending Story”, “Labyrinth”,
Jules Verne, Marie Severin, tales, legends
– he is invested in nature and animal
photography with foxes being one of his
favourite subjects. Music-wise, Feu Follet
sticks to the cinematographic side of the
predecessor album with the guest vocals
giving it a more pop/rock approach. Blaising
names the “Top Gun” and “Blade Runner”
OSTs and concept albums like “Misplaced
Childhood” by Marillion while, on the other
hand, involving shoegaze arpeggios and a
dream pop atmosphere which is supported
by the female vocals of Isabell.B Baumann
and Natacha Lubin. In addition, guest vocals
by labelmates Vlimmer and XTR HUMAN
sprinkle some post-punk vibes on brilliant
layers of modular synthesizers which
easily keep the album coherent giving it a
persisting haunting nature.
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