This was sent to me recently by my friend Spencer, a reliable source of weird, wonderful and cosmic tunes. It's six minutes forty nine seconds long so qualifies for the Monday slot and came out on DFA in 2017, Futur Parlez by Essaie Pas. Spencer described it as having 'smacky Blade Runner vibes with a spoken word French vocal', to which I replied, 'what's not to like?' I'd like to add that the church organ sound coupled with ominous synths is electrifying, and there's a snare at five minutes twenty that is nerve shreddingly perfect. A supercharged, French speaking Vangelis experience.
The video is no less persuasive, fire, traffic, night into early morning, a city falling apart, people who've been up all night stumbling round, glitchy graphics, close ups of robotic faces....
Essaie Pas ('Don't try') are from Montreal, a wife and husband duo of Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau. In the text that accompanies the song at Bandcamp Marie and Pierre say that the track was built around Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly and the future world Dick imagined of 'surveillance and drone cameras, abstract digital landscapes, and facial recognition software'.
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