NEVER COMING BACK
“An impeccably tuned ear” - The Wire
“Armed with a synth and devastating song writing skills, her music is minimal, melancholic and timeless, somewhere between Roedelius, Ruth White and electronic realisations of Baroque music” - Roope Eronen
“The general gloom MIAUX spreads on her sandwiches is darker than Tatort and could replace any soundtrack of a Fassbinder movie” - Dennis Tyfus
| Genre | Ambient Electronica Soundtrack |
|---|---|
| Style | Synthwave |
| Format | VINYL |
| Cat. no | VIERNULVIER005 |
| Label | VIERNULVIER RECORDS |
| Artist | MIAUX |
| Release Date | 21/06/2024 |
| Carrier | LP |
| Barcode | 5414165091141 |
Out of stock
Tracklisting
NEVER COMING BACK
Show more tracks Show less tracks + -
Album or track playing
MIAUX PRESENTS NEW LP ‘NEVER COMING BACK’ ON VIERNULVIER RECORDS
The Belgian Composer’s upcoming LP IS INSPIRED BY THE NEW FILM SCORE SHE wrote FOR 60S CULT FILM ‘CARNIVAL OF SOULS’
Antwerp-based composer and synth virtuoso Miaux presents her new album, 'Never Coming Back’ on VIERNULVIER Records. The record is rooted in the recent film score she composed for the surreal and haunted cult movie 'Carnival of Souls' (1962).
Directed by American filmmaker Herk Harvey, this enigmatic ghost film influenced contemporary directors like David Lynch, George A. Romero, and Lucrecia Martel.
Miaux meticulously crafted the score in her home studio, relying solely on her two hands and a single synthesizer during the spring and summer of 2022. The inaugural performance of this renewed score with film, unfolded at Videodroom / Film Fest Gent 2022 in Ghent, Belgium. The compositions were subsequently unraveled, rewritten into full-fledged songs, and assembled into a new record entitled 'Never Coming Back’, bearing Miaux’s unmistakable signature.
The album is scheduled for release on May 3 and will be available on vinyl LP and all digital platforms.
Miaux will perform the album live at Roadburn Festival (NL), offering a pure interpretation of the new songs. Additionally, there are shows planned a STUK (Leuven) and Palmarium (Ghent), where she will perform the film score alongside the film.
More Press
Listening to Maiux’s new Never Coming Back album, my first thought was, “This sounds like some sort of haunted carnival music.” Consisting of little more than the Antwerp-based artist and her evocative synth wanderings, it’s admittedly not the sort of manic thing you’d hear while riding the tilt-a-whirl; it’s slower, and more nostalgic, as though it was meant to accompany smudgy, half-forgotten memories of childhood trips to the fair. As it turns out, a carnival did factor into the LP’s creation, but it was the 1962 film Carnival of Souls, for which Miaux was asked to create a new score in 2022. The movie itself apparently involves a pavilion, not a carnival, but its themes of isolation and alienation seeped into Miaux’s compositions. (She described the creative process in greater detail in an interview with Foxy Digitalis that went live yesterday.) “The old pavilion near the lake” does sound a bit like a bummed-out take on something you might hear on Stranger Things soundtrack, but a better parallel is Angelo Badalamenti’s iconic work on Twin Peaks. Both beautiful and unmistakably sad, it’s as though the song’s warbling keys were meant to obscure the scars of something deeply traumatic. -
Related Frequencies
