A five-year term after his first noticed album, "A ta merci", the artist signs "Avec les yeux", scheduled for this Friday.

There are always the 1980s sounds that are his signature, as in one of the singles already released "Masque d'or", but not only.

"I'm leaning towards more quiet things -- I think I'm calming down -- more ballads with few arrangements, on the edge, but I also like bombast, atmospheric synths, lyrical guitars. I balance between the two", tells AFP the 30-year-old, protected that day from the Parisian drizzle by a chapka.

Among the beaches of calm, we find "Leaving the city", in a folk-country register that will recall Johnny Cash.

A title that has everything from experience, since the singer-songwriter left Paris for the Ardennes, the region where she grew up.

"I passed my license, adopted a dog, I settled in the countryside in a village of 200 souls near the river".

The surrounding nature, which is adorned with a halo bordering on the magical and the fantastic, thus serves as a backdrop for the clip of his song "Téléportation".

For the texts, we let ourselves be carried away by a "surrealism which makes it possible to sublimate reality", as she puts it.

"Dreams feed the subject. I have two lives: normal during the day then, when I sleep, I have crazy dreams, a little disturbing. I will draw from there".

And at Fishbach, we are not far from a discipline.

"It's a gym, you have to write down your dreams. Sometimes I go back to sleep to continue the dream and with practice I can rewrite the course of history, even if I don't have control over it. the decor but on me, even if it is not automatic and not as simple as that".

Singer and actress Flora Fischbach, April 5, 2019 in Cannes, France Valery HACHE AFP / Archives

"Expressionism"

These escapes into imaginary parallel worlds allow him, paradoxically, to accept himself better on a daily basis.

As evidenced by her clip "Masque d'or", where she appears as a review leader worthy of "Cabaret", a musical transposed to the cinema by Bob Fosse.

"There was something about the body that interested me, that I hadn't thought of exploring before. I think I was hiding behind what was expected of me, the somewhat androgynous girl. changed, I hate myself less than before".

"I want to try on all the costumes in the world," she asserts.

As if to translate "different emotional states, different stages of a life".

A desire to vary the patterns which is also felt vocally, since she allows herself "different timbres".

There are even Catherine Ringer intonations in "Lightning".

"She has an incredible voice and charisma, a crazy life. With the Rita Mitsouko, there are audacity in the very striking productions, she begins when we remark to her. But we don't have at all the same tone, it's just a drop of voice that she also uses".

To hear him talk about the intentions of his interpretation, other similarities come back with the singer of "Marcia Baïla": "I don't like lukewarm, I pull sweetness or anger by the hair. We often talk about theatricality about me, but it's more expressionism".

To be seen on tour from the end of March, with a visit to L'Olympia at the end of November.

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