The Bernadette Maries, poised on the edge between dream and reality, drift into disembodied spaces to capture fleeting images. “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 They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, the band is part of a generation of musicians creating a post-digital rock, digesting their idols to better uncover the present.
The Bernadette Maries are constantly on the edge between dream and reality, escaping into disembodied spaces to capture distorted images and give them meaning. The music video for “ESO,” the second single from their debut album Soft, is proof of this, multiplying scenes drenched in artificial light, from the neon glow of a warehouse to flashlights aimed into the night. Following the duality of the track, which takes off from a nugaze texture filled with heavy guitars into a liquid drum’n’bass, the visuals move from a direct, front-facing view of the band and gradually dissolve into a more abstract, vaporous substance, attempting to convey its nocturnal poetry.