Feu Follet - On the Switch (ft. Vlimmer) [Official Video]

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Feu Follet is a one man synthpop/coldwave/post-punk project from Nancy, France, which started in 2019 with the instrumental album "Le champ des morts" and since then has released an album per year via Berlin-based label Blackjack Illuminist Records. On the new album, "IV", the sole member, Alban Blaising has asked female and male vocalists to sing on his songs. The result is surprisingly catchy, yet haunting. Bandcamp (New & Notable) calls it "perfect '80s new wave".


Lyrics: On The Switch

Tender and delicate
(Sunrise)
Fidgety and restless
(Sunset)
The conjurer hesitates everyday

When she sees the mess at full scope
When she sees the mess
With my rays on the switch
Should I let it be
And instead send a heavy itch?
Right from the center of it all

On the switch

Splendid and oh so bright
(Sunrise)
Boasting with loudness
(Sunset)
The conjurer doubts her plans every day

When she sees the mess at full scope
When she sees the mess she helped make
With my rays on the switch
Should I let it be
And instead send a heavy itch?
Right from the center of it all


Alban Blaising on writing "On The Switch":
"With "On the Switch" I wanted to create a somewhat surreal and magical atmosphere.
Based on fairly simple sounds like a sine wave, stuff in the spirit of a "glockenspiel" made with a resonator and an electric piano like "Wurlitzer".
All this to create a kind of soundtrack for an old science fiction movie, a black and white thing, with crude special effects on fantastic creatures and taking place under the seabed.
The chorus on the other hand is more epic and sounds more 80s, maybe influenced by artists like "The Psychedelics Furs" or "The Mission" for the 1st part then goes on some more post punk and electronic then.

Alexander Donat (Vlimmer) on the lyrics of "On The Switch":
Hearing the instrumental for the first time I immediately had Super 8 footage of the sun in mind. If it were a living creature or some kind of god, what would it think about us humans and our flaws, our wars, our absolute failure to live in peace? I pictured the sun as someone whose in constant doubt about humans. With the sun's fingers (rays) on some kind of switch that allows to kill them, she/he has to decide whether to let us live or send us to death in the form of skin cancer for example. Wthout the sun there wouldn't be any life on our planet, so we ultimately depend on her mercy.


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Blackjack Illuminist Records: www.blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com