Video Of The Day The Bernadette Maries
Formed in 2024, the Brussels, Belgium-based Shoegaze / Indie Rock three-piece of Daria, Guy, and Romain, tease the forthcoming debut album, “Soft,” due out on September 18th via Géographie, with an Official Video by Lili Haberey for the second single, “ESO.”
“ESO,” a nested track, unfolds in several sequences, like successive snapshots of a dream. From a nugaze texture, it lifts off into an intoxicating liquid drum’n’bass. Like Julie or TAGABOW, the band is part of a generation of musicians creating a post-digital rock, digesting their idols to better uncover the present.
A song that swerves between two tonal halves to impress distinct states of awareness, bursting out with blistering, huge spasms of buzzing, achingly ringing Smashing Pumpkins-esque riffs, churned by doom-laden bass throbs and stumbling, thumping drum beats, to push and pull gritty, anxious male vocals, struggling not to slip from a white picture view of perfection. Then, at 1:48, a lonesome rubbery bass line descends into a breezy atmospheric bridge to cool things down, triggering a slinky roll of effortlessly skittering breakbeats, and vibrant, radiant wistful synth spirals alongside ethereal female vocals, gently spinning around whilst repeating the shared chorus of the first half, finally echoing outward into an ephemeral drone.
In the Official Video, directed by Lili Haberey, The Bernadette Maries deliver an expressive performance of “ESO” on a concrete slab nestled between a dreamy purple wall hanging of an urban skyline and a closed industrial garage door. At 1:48, in sync with the intermezzo, snow starts to fall from the ‘sky’, and the band freezes, causing everything to change. The band is now wearing winter clothes as each of them walks across a different tile floor to go outside. It’s nighttime, and the only light, besides the dim ambient haze from the live city, is a moving spotlight. This evokes a strange, bittersweet sense of sadness and joy, confusion and clarity, loss and discovery.
The Bernadette Maries’ first album, “Soft,” will be released on September 18th on Géographie.
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