French progressive/post-rock outfit Klone share new live performance video for »Interlaced« from Hellfest Open Air 2024

Photo by Benjamin Delacoux

Poitiers, France based progressive/post-rock outfit Klone has released a live performance video for »Interlaced«, recorded at Hellfest Open Air 2024.

»Interlaced« is taken from the band’s latest full-length album, »The Unseen«, out on November 8th, 2024 via Pelagic Records.

Courtesy of Pelagic Records:

Returning with their 10th full-length album, »The Unseen«, French art-rock band Klone are pushing their already sumptuous sound to dizzying, magisterial heights. A bold new journey through a singular yet contrasting soundscape, »The Unseen« is an immersive, dreamlike experience that speaks to the significance of things that at first glance seem to lack it.

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, French art-rockers Klone have risen to new heights across the globe, touring in Europe, USA, Australia, 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.

Lead single and album opener »Interlaced« is a breathtaking journey through rich, rhythmic depths; chiming intertwined guitars give way to a soaring, free-jazz inspired saxophone solo as lyrics exploring moments that allow us to rediscover our youth establish the introspective themes of the album as a whole.

Elsewhere, eponymous track »The Unseen« balances melancholy and optimism over a lilting, waltz-time groove before the band dial up the distortion and Ligner’s voice breaks with an outpouring of lyrical vulnerability whilst another standout track, »Magnetic«, is a defiant and direct ode to love with its simple yet undeniably effective structure building to a fist-pumping, pulse-racing crescendo.

With such an inimitable 25 years of music already behind them, it seems apt that »The Unseen« is also Klone’s 10th 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.

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Klone tour dates:
21/03 – FR Lille, Black Lab + The Old Dead Tree
22/03 – FR Nantes, Ferrailleur + The Old Dead Tree
29/03 – FR Valence, Théâtre de la Ville
03/04 – FR Poitiers, Le Confort Moderne
04/04 – FR Montpellier, Secret Place
05/04 – FR Lyon, MJC Totem
06/04 – FR Ris Orangis, We Metal Fest
09/04 – FR Toulouse, Rex
10/04 – FR La Rochelle, Crossroads
11/04 – FR Pau, L’Ampli + The Old Dead Tree
13/04 – FR Bordeaux, Rock School Barbey + The Old Dead Tree
15/04 – FR Strasbourg, Point D’eau + The Old Dead Tree
17/04 – FR Rennes, Ubu + The Old Dead Tree
18/04 – FR Brest, La Carène + The Old Dead Tree
27/04 – DE Stuttgart, Club Zentral + Kingcrow
29/04 – PL Krakow, Hype Park + Kingcrow
30/04 – HU Budapest, Instant + Kingcrow
01/05 – RO Timisoara, Manufaktura + Kingcrow
02/05 – RO Bucharest, Quantic + Kingcrow
06/05 – DE Aschaffenburg, Colos-Saal + Kingcrow
07/05 – DE Neunkirchen, Stummsche Reithalle + Kingcrow
09/05 – NL Hedon, Swolle Hedon + Kingcrow
10/05 – NL Zoetermeer, De Boerderij + Kingcrow
11/05 – DE Übach-Palenberg, Rockfabrik + Kingcrow
05/07 – FR Gisors, Kave Fest
13/07 – FR Saint-Léonard-des-Bois, Domaine du Gasseau (unplugged show)
23/08 – FR Pleymeinade, Tribal Fest
12/09 – FR Tours, Sidfest
13/09 – FR Mordelles, Mordhells Fest
25/10 – FR Paris, Le Trabendo

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well