Birdmask, the chamber pop project featuring Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux, have premiered a new song titled “Recovery.” This track is from the band’s new EP “Tristan,” which will be released on November 24. Notably, that effort will be followed by another EP, titled “Isolde,” next year.
Gagneux commented:
“With Zeal & Ardor I’m acting as if I were a different person, whereas Birdmask is pretty much me and my gleeful stupidity and childish exploration. It’s closer to who I am in real life.. It doesn’t really have that societal aspect that Zeal & Ardor has. It’s just: I feel bad today so here’s my sadness, or I feel great today, here’s my glee.”
He also went on to say that Birdmask is a separate entity from Zeal & Ardor:
“I think I’d like to try to reach different people. And there’s a conscious effort of separating the two, just because it’s different music, at least to me. The reason I wanted to distinguish it is because it would be easy to gain an online following of people who just associate me with Zeal & Ardor and by proxy just happened to like this.”
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