Bastien Pons, together with Frank Zozky, hits you with the sound of their song, "Black Clouds". It is not the customary song, based on a catchy hook or soaring melody, it persists and persists, unyielding as it snakes its way over layers of static, cut-up loops, low industrial echoes, and finally creates a space which somehow feels both claustrophobic yet also strangely calm. "Black Clouds" is a rare sort of intimate, disorienting, and gripping all at once.
"Black Clouds" presses in, like stormy weather that looms over the listener without ever dropping to a downpour. Each texture drifts seamlessly, dissolving into the next, creating a hushed, almost meditative disquiet. It is not about resolution, but inhabiting a state, an in-between moment where the listener is entirely within the heaviness of sound and feeling.
Strolling through Black Clouds is like slogging one's way through an emotional fog. It's deliberately unbalanced, disorienting most subtly, but a little bit serene. The song doesn't narrate the story in any traditional sense, it doesn't have to. It's an experience, an atmosphere, a perpetuation of pressure that lingers long after the last loop has gone silent.
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