Words by Nick Ashton

Back together after a two year hiatus, Unjust Fate is Poétique Électronique’s new single.

The band has evolved. Born in Parisienne basements and smoke-filled Viennese bars, their earlier music was a suspension of indolence and emotion. Moritz’s synths would alternate between echoes and firm beats, driving the music onwards. Similarly, Leon’s voice would ring through sometimes soft, sometimes vibrating powerfully. The music was a portrait, an image balancing between young and old; between sepia flashbacks and colourful projections; Michel de Montaigne quotes and the cry of an electric guitar; between the young lovers and a graveyard.

Unjust Fate sees any of these contrasts washed away. They’re now based in Berlin, and like the city, which has accepted its history and is looking forward, the song has one eye on the past and one on the future. Leon’s voice has become smoother, fuller, and more tender, and it’s buoyed up on waves of Moritz’s ripe electronic sound. The video is one simple, white, flowing shot – a pure moment of reflection. In the place of tension, there is acceptance.

The camera has been turned away from the band and we see the world through their eyes. It’s as if they have breathed a long sigh of relief, have had a chance to stop and look around them, to enjoy the beauty and to see what comes next.

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