BLINDED is Bastien Pons’ Album Out Now
Good Day Noir Family,
From the opening seconds of “Babi Yar,” it’s clear that BLINDED by Bastien Pons is not your average sonic journey.
BLINDED is Bastien Pons’ Album Out Now
The debut track submerges you into what feels like a dimly lit basement lined with flickering cables—part mechanical lair, part digital dream.
The track unspools slowly, almost ritualistically, building tension with acidic tones and eerie choral textures that blur the line between sacred and cybernetic. It doesn’t grab you—it engulfs you.
This sense of exploration continues with “Black Clouds,” a piece that could easily underscore a Mad Max convoy crossing a scorched desert. Primarily instrumental, it lets the machines speak, while brief vocal touches are treated more like sonic textures than traditional lines—just another element in the swirling mix. The voice becomes disembodied, embedded in the chaos, stripped of ego.
Then comes “I Did Not Kill Her,” where the atmosphere turns manic. Here, the vocals return with more urgency—disoriented, defensive, and unsettling. The track teeters between electro-industrial energy and alt-rock grit, like a glitchy confrontation between The Prodigy and Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins. The emotion is raw, the arrangement frayed at the edges, and the tension feels almost too real.
“One Minute of America” pushes things further into the avant-garde. It’s a digital rainstorm—cold, relentless, and strangely beautiful. Notes fall like the green Matrix code, dripping with synthetic dread. It’s a futuristic dystopia rendered in tones and pulses, where melody is stripped down to binary emotion.
The album closes with “Et Si Un Jour,” introducing a ghostly female voice that feels like it drifted in from another dimension. It’s siren-like, hypnotic without being sweet, pulling the listener into a parallel space that’s thin and infinite. The track leaves you somewhere between Blade Runner’s skyline and the dreamworld of forgotten memories.
BLINDED is not an easy listen. It doesn’t want to be. Bastien Pons crafts a world built on discomfort, confrontation, and futuristic noir. It’s immersive, strange, and—most impressively—original. If this is where music is going, the future is dark, unstable, and worth every second.
BLINDED is Bastien Pons’ Album Out Now!
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BLINDED is Bastien Pons’ Album Out Now
From France, Bastien Pons blurs the line between sound and image, crafting immersive experiences rather than conventional music. Trained in musique concrète under Bernard Fort and rooted in black-and-white photography, his work fuses field recordings, ambient textures, and industrial tones into visceral sound sculptures. Influenced by The Residents, Meredith Monk, Lustmord, Swans, and others, Pons creates a deeply tactile world — not just to be heard, but to be inhabited.
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