After six years of solo adventures and film scores, the Scratch Massive duo (Maud Geffray and Sebastien Chenut) is back at last with "Nox Anima". Recorded in Los Angeles, the album revives the dreamlike, haunted ambiences of "Garden Of Love" and "Nuit de Rêve" (2011). Two milestones in Scratch Massive's career, where the duo honed their cinematic universe, constantly balancing between cold and heat,
darkness and hedonism, pop and underground, sun and darkness. With 10 tracks, including two pop-infused hits featuring guest appearances by Yelle and Jeanne Added, the surgically produced "Nox Anima" recaptures the unspoiled magic of Scratch Massive. While taking this electronic, melancholy trance setting, which is uniquely theirs, a step further, it unfolds and can be listened to like the soundtrack to an imaginary film, full of tensions and twists, slowing down and speeding up, palpitations and calming. A soundtrack that evokes stories of love and absence, reunion and separation, all in tension and meticulousness, climax and solarism, mixing dream and reality with passion. A dystopian climate perfectly brought to life by star director Emmanuel Cossu (seen alongside Dua Lipa, Gesaffelstein, Connan Mockasin and Sebastien Tellier), who offers "I see you up tomorrow" a poetic setting conceived with the help of lA as an extension of the bittersweet universe unfurled on "Nox Anima". Fashion photographers Sofia and Mauro also create a majestic video for "Des Choses", featuring Yelle, a cinematic epic of
love. A new album in the shape of a new stage for the duo, who in a career spanning 20 years and four studio albums, have left their mark on the French electro scene. Far from the disco filters and saturated beats of the French Touch, the duo's dreamlike, melancholy, poetic and cinematographic universe, with one foot in techno and the other in cold-
wave. And his head is in the stars!