Swiss ensemble Future Faces, forged in Geneva’s DIY crucible, distill coldwave into something sharp yet spectral: steel-sprung post-punk threaded through with the fray of Dadaist disorder and romantic decay. Since 2017, the quartet (Alex Muller, Matthieu Baumann, Ludovic Lacroix, Léa Martinez) have sculpted sound from static, splicing industrial urgency with glacial elegance. Their work speaks in reverberations: of lost futures, crumbled certainties, and bleak beauty reassembled in four-minute bursts.
Future Faces dial back the clock and detune the dial with Sun, a lo-fi broadcast beamed from the bones of Top of the Pops, Old Grey Whistle Test and Soul Train, and recast in chromatic decay. Pulled from their latest record Memoria, the track lingers like sweat on sunburnt skin: basslines buzz, synths sigh, and Delia Meshlir’s guest vocals drift like smoke. It’s a slow-motion spiral through heatstroke reverie and seaside sorrow, where every embrace evaporates before contact. Meshlir’s voice, smooth and rich, brushes against the angular chill of icy synths, creating a stirring contrast. As youth fades into the quiet shadows of time, the song gently urges the listener to treasure those moments, to hold close the joy of having truly lived and deeply loved.
The band’s Alex Muller imagines the song as a reverent riff on analogue imperfection in his charming clip: tape hiss, overexposed bulbs, and text that trembles like a forgotten VHS epigraph. The video for Sun doesn’t parody the past; it plays in it, stretches it, and soaks it in salt and sun until it stings. It is a love letter to summer’s sweet disintegration, where desire drowns in disco lighting, and every goodbye is broadcast through a dying CRT screen.
Watch the video for “Sun,” featuring Delia Meshlir, below:
Memoria, inhabits a synthetic landscape, shifting and probing the effects of past deeds on today and tomorrow. This work relies on delicate balances, blending sparse, desolate passages with crescendos that surge and subside like distant tides. Each track invites reflection upon transience, truth, and time’s relentless pace. It stands as a stark reminder that all things must pass, leaving echoes of sound in silence.
Listen to Sun below and order Memoria here.
Catch Future Faces live throughout Switzerland:
- 2 May 2025 – Future Faces, Point 11, Sion, Switzerland
- 10 May 2025 – Future Faces, Case à Choc, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 15 May 2025 – And Also the Trees + Future Faces, PTR L’Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
- 17 May 2025 – And Also the Trees + Future Faces, Sedel, Lucerne, Switzerland
- 23 May 2025 – Heavy Lungs (GB) + Future Faces (CH), Usine à Gaz, Nyon, Switzerland
- 24 May 2025 – Dark Disco Festival Vol. V, Gaswerk, Winterthur, Switzerland
- 20 June 2025 – Future Faces, Fête de la Musique, Geneva, Switzerland
- 9 August 2025 – Rock’R Festival, Porrentruy, Switzerland
- 26 September 2025 – Future Faces + Buzz Kull, Amalgame, Yverdon, Switzerland
Follow Future Faces:
Or via: