The return of the French Saints between Twenty One Pilots and Subsonica

A year and a half after the ep “It may not matter,” French Saints return with “Guerrilla”a song that inaugurates the duo’s new path and which immediately shows a more rock, more driven, more nervous direction than in the past. There is an attitude that recalls some moments of Twenty One Pilotswhich has always been one of the project’s declared points of reference, especially in the way in which melodic tension and energy coexist within the same song.

At the same time, the suspended and at times ethereal voice, with phrases that seem to be shot out of the speakers of a dystopian world, enters into a more aggressive production, at times recalling certain atmospheres of the more rock Subsonica. This does not mean that the French Saints do not have their own identity, on the contrary. “Guerrilla” works precisely because it manages to use recognizable references without turning into a derivative exercise. It’s a good first single, probably a piece destined to find its best fulfillment live, thanks to a very physical and direct impact.

Alessandro De Santis and Mario Lorenzo Francese themselves explain the meaning of the song: “The question is always the same. A human reaction that increases our heart rate and makes us alert: fight or flight. Do you fight or run away? Rule #20 of the revolution: Once a rebel, always a rebel. So for us ‘Guerrilla’ is yet another attempt to look for companions, for fire, in what seems like a cold place to us. Companions to fight with, in silence, in the woods, all full of love like a band of irregulars.” More than a total change of skin, “Guerrilla” seems like the first step of a new artistic awareness: more mature writing, greater expressive freedom and the desire to get his hands more dirty with the sound and emotional urgency of the piece.