There is a peculiar futility in desiring the embrace of one whose heart is winter itself, a hunger that blinds the soul to its own undoing. The vampire lingers at the threshold, patient and cold, shimmering with the promise of warmth that does not exist in their icy heart. Yet by inviting their embrace, each fleeting pleasure—sweet in the moment—becomes a counterfeit glow that vanishes with the dawn. What follows is the hollow ache of having offered one’s blood to an energy vampire, cold and unyielding, while the dreamer is left clutching shadows, still thirsting for a love that was never truly alive.
The result is stark, a frame for the tension between hunger and distance, yearning and denial. It recalls the smoke-stained atmospheres of The Chameleons and the deceptively sharp pop ache of The Smiths, yet their stride feels urgent, melancholy, and unadorned.
Lyrically, LIBRA plays like a confession and a dare. Flores leans into repetition, hammering the same phrases until they take on the weight of ritual. “Cold as ice” becomes less metaphor than diagnosis, the song’s spine and sentence. Each refrain presses harder, the language collapsing into rhythm, the rhythm collapsing into need. There is intimacy here, but it is bruised and unwilling to unclench. The song closes with repetition folding in on itself; no resolution in sight, with the voice insisting on its own chill. Love here is a transaction of control, a fever, and a freeze.
Listen to LIBRA below and order the single here.
French Police have unveiled an expansive North American tour for 2025, bringing their hypnotic post-punk sound to audiences across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Kicking off on October 2nd in Milwaukee, the band will wind through major cities including Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas before heading south to Mexico with dates in Tijuana and Monterrey. They’ll then sweep across the southern and eastern U.S., with stops in Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Boston, before closing the run in Canada and the Midwest with shows in Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago. The final stretch takes them deep into Mexico with performances in Guadalajara and Mexico City.
Tour Dates:
- Oct 2 – Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium *
- Oct 3 – Minneapolis, MN – Amsterdam *
- Oct 4 – Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge *
- Oct 6 – Denver, CO – Meow Wolf *
- Oct 7 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *
- Oct 9 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile *
- Oct 10 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret *
- Oct 11 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom *
- Oct 13 – Reno, NV – Holland Project *
- Oct 14 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
- Oct 15 – Fresno, CA – Strummer’s *
- Oct 16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Novo *
- Oct 17 – Tijuana, MX – Marko Disko +
- Oct 18 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory *
- Oct 19 – San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park *
- Oct 21 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues *
- Oct 22 – Phoenix, AZ – The Nile *
- Oct 23 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace *
- Oct 25 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater *
- Oct 27 – McAllen, TX – Cine El Rey *
- Oct 28 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas *
- Oct 29 – Dallas, TX – Trees *
- Oct 30 – Houston, TX – Warehouse *
- Nov 1 – Orlando, FL – The Social ^
- Nov 2 – Miami, FL – Gramps ^
- Nov 3 – Tampa, FL – The Crowbar ^
- Nov 4 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade ^
- Nov 5 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theater ^
- Nov 6 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle ^
- Nov 7 – Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall ^
- Nov 8 – Washington, DC – Black Cat ^
- Nov 9 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere ^
- Nov 11 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry ^
- Nov 12 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall ^
- Nov 13 – Montreal, QC – Theater Fairmount ^
- Nov 14 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace ^
- Nov 15 – Detroit, MI – El Club ^
- Nov 16 – Chicago, IL – Ramova ^
- Nov 18 – Monterrey, MX – Nodriza Estudio +
- Nov 21 – Guadalajara, MX – Foro Independencia + #
- Nov 23 – CDMX, MX – Foro Indie Rocks + #
Support Acts:
- = RIKI
- ^ = SOCIAL ORDER
- = VILEVO
- = SAN CHARBEL
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