From The Beatles to XTC to Kate Bush to Steely Dan, there is a lot to be said for just being studio projects. And while those are bands who turned their back on live work in favour of the studio, Les Flâneurs has always called that place home. And with the lack of distraction by the logistics of the road, the results speak for themselves.
The latest single, “Fireworks,” sees the Flâneur himself, Alessandro Marchetti, team up with Avantage Kairos, singer and leader of the band Kairoscode, to produce a dream-like, drifting musing on the nature of love. What, the song suggests, if love were like fireworks, explosive, awe-inspiring, and sensational, but also ephemeral, unpredictable, and often, all too brief.
And despite the allusions to bold and big and majestic imagery, “Fireworks” is a beautifully understated piece, capturing those big ideas in a nuanced, cinematic sound. A heady blend of dreampop richness and gentle dance beats, filmic haze, and perfectly restrained synth sensations, it glides towards the listener, immersing them in this measured and marvellous wave of sonic beauty.
“Fireworks” comes ahead of Afterglow, an album six years in the making and due out this year, and accompanied by a video as delicate and emotive as the music that it frames. This lush video was filmed in the picturesque landscape of the Azores, the place that Avantage Kairos now calls home, by the Portuguese director Paula Murio, further underlining the visual aspects of the project – the single and album artwork already based on original photographs by the award-winning Cristina Rizzi-Guelfi.
Image, film, and sound all working in perfect harmony, all talking to each other, each inspiring the other, all pieces that make Les Flâneurs more than the sum of its parts. So much more.
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