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5/15/20262 min read
🇫🇷 AUTOUR DE LA MUSIQUE MANAGEMENT
Author: Vincent
Date: May 15, 2026
Format: Industry Professional Feedback & Critique
"From the very beginning, I had this interesting feeling of being transported back toward certain atmospheres The Cure explored during the Pornography, Faith, or Seventeen Seconds eras. Not in a derivative sense, but rather through this ability to create dense, cold, existential melancholia, where sound itself becomes almost a psychological landscape to move through... You are developing a dark, immersive, and demanding artistic proposal, with a genuine depth of sonic research behind it.
The treatment of textures, sonic masses, electroacoustic tensions, evolving dynamics... all of this reflects a high level of construction, experimentation and artistic intention. You can clearly feel the project’s conceptual, experimental and philosophical dimension. It is immediately clear that the goal here is not to create a formatted single, but rather an experience, almost a narrative and emotional journey.
There is something surprisingly rare in your proposal: a work that looks toward strong historical references while maintaining a contemporary sonic identity. This is not necessarily an easy-access project — and I suspect it is not trying to be — but it undeniably carries a strong artistic identity."
— Vincent, Autour de la Musique Management (France)
La Musique Management (France) [Continue for the full text ]:
Thank you for sharing “Absence III”. From the very beginning, I had this interesting feeling of being transported back toward certain atmospheres The Cure explored during the Pornography, Faith, or Seventeen Seconds eras. Not in a derivative sense, but rather through this ability to create dense, cold, existential melancholia, where sound itself becomes almost a psychological landscape to move through. That is probably what I appreciated most about this piece.
You are developing a dark, immersive and demanding artistic proposal, with a genuine depth of sonic research behind it. It is immediately clear that the goal here is not to create a formatted single, but rather an experience, almost a narrative and emotional journey. The production work also deserves recognition. The treatment of textures, sonic masses, electroacoustic tensions, evolving dynamics... all of this reflects a high level of construction, experimentation and artistic intention. You can clearly feel the project’s conceptual, experimental and philosophical dimension.
That said, I’d like to be transparent regarding a more strategic aspect. Today, it will be extremely challenging to make a wider audience — and even some media outlets — fully engage with an 8 minute 30 second single. Of course, it is not impossible. Music history is full of long-form pieces that became landmark works. However, we are also living in a period where listener attention spans are becoming increasingly fragmented, even among audiences who genuinely enjoy alternative and experimental music. And for me, that is where your main challenge lies. Because the artistic quality is not really the issue here. The real question becomes: How do you invite listeners into such a dense universe without losing them before they reach its emotional core?
Perhaps one possible strategy could be to allow different formats to coexist: – keeping the full-length version, fully embraced in its artistic and archival ambition; – while potentially developing a shorter editorial / radio / discovery version that could serve as an accessible gateway into your universe.
Regarding the overall positioning, I also find the dialogue between post-punk heritage, dark atmospherics and modernized electronic experimentation particularly interesting. There is something surprisingly rare in your proposal: a work that looks toward strong historical references while maintaining a contemporary sonic identity. This is not necessarily an easy-access project — and I suspect it is not trying to be — but it undeniably carries a strong artistic identity.
Wishing you the very best for this new edition and for the archival / restoration work surrounding the catalogue."
— Vincent, Autour de la Musique Management 🎶
