Photo: Marie Mauve

October 25th will see the release of FOUDRE!‘s sixth album, Voltæ (Chthulucene), through Nahal Recordings and ZamZam Rec. The trio of Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), Romain Barbot (Saåad), and Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf) crafted a wistful and powerful “tribute to electricity and telluric forces”, as the press release describes, “a complete celebration of life, a symbiosis for an epistemic shift.” On the new album, FOUDRE!’s sound takes a post-techno turn, blending English rave, punk urgency, and electronica with traditional sounds.

Recorded in the studio for the first time, Voltæ (Chthulucene) is an electronic feat produced by sound engineer Camille Jamain. The album’s richly layered and evocative 8 tracks lead us through soundscapes that explore themes of coexistence and renewal, painting a psychedelic futuristic vision “where hybrid characters of  human / machine / vegetable could start to dance, mutate, and merge within everything around them.”

The fierce and mesmeric  ‘Visions from Zūrūtetsu’ is the first track to emerge from the album and you can listen to it below.