FRENCH ART-ROCK BAND KLONE SHARE TITLE TRACK FROM FORTHCOMING RECORD THE UNSEEN“THE UNSEEN” BALANCES EUPHORIC HEIGHTS WITH NEWFOUND LYRICAL VULNERABILITY — LISTEN
French art-rock band Klone have released the title track from their forthcoming full-length album, The Unseen, set for release on November 8 through Berlin’s Pelagic Records. Pre-order it here.
A bold new journey through a singular yet contrasting soundscape, The Unseen is an immersive, dreamlike experience that pushes Klone’s already sumptuous sound to new, magisterial heights and speaks to the significance of things that at first glance seem to lack it.
“The Unseen” (title track) is out now. Listen here.
Emotive and conceptual, Klone have once again broken new sonic ground and built further on their signature expansive sound. Since the release of Le Grand Voyage in 2019, Klone have risen to new heights across the globe, touring in Europe, USA, Australia, and Mexico alongside the likes of Devin Townsend, Leprous, Riverside, Pain of Salvation, Gojira, and blowing away festival crowds at Hellfest 2024, Prog Power USA, Midsummer Prog, and Cruise to the Edge. Coming off the back of their phenomenal 2023 album Meanwhile, The Unseen is a masterpiece of both performance and production that sees Klone wearing their years of experience proudly on their sleeves.
With every member and every instrument pushed to its expressive limit, The Unseen has a might and intensity to it that, whilst sometimes abrasive, simultaneously feels natural, coherent and unified as the band move from motif and melody as one; guided as ever by the unmistakable voice and vision of Yann Ligner.
The album’s title track sees Klone deftly balance musical melancholy with uplifting optimism as the five-piece build a lilting, 6/8 groove before dialing up the distortion to euphoric heights whilst Ligner’s words resound with a newly uncovered outpouring of lyrical vulnerability that celebrates the bittersweet beauty of the moment.
With such an inimitable 25 years of music already behind them, it seems apt that The Unseen is also Klone’s tenth full-length release. The album serves as a milestone that uses reflections on the past as a means of appreciating the beauty of the present, with the band employing their shared decades of creativity and collaboration to offer enlightening new perspectives on the here and now.
Linger says, “‘The Unseen’ is a contemplative piece which takes time to fully open up. Musically, we tried to strike a delicate balance between melancholy and optimism and lyrically I tried to reflect the fleeting beauty of a vulnerable nature and, as such, the importance of embracing the present moment; whatever it may bring.”
