To live in the present with love is to drink deeply from a fleeting cup, knowing full well it might be emptied by dawn. The heart yearns for permanence, yet there’s a kind of grace in savoring what is here, now, untouched by thoughts of what might come. Love, caught in the present, beats with a purity that the future and past cannot touch—a fervor that gleams brighter for its brevity. Even if it slips away, it leaves an indelible mark, a truth felt in the marrow.
The present is all we truly possess, and to love within it, fiercely and fully, is a choice—a beautiful defiance against the certainty of endings. Love lived in the now does not fade when it passes; it transforms, becomes woven into the self, shaping us long after it has burned out. It remains, vivid and alive, in the soul’s deep, quiet places. This is heart of the new single and music video for Neon Outlines, from Switzerland’s Future Faces.
Neon Outlines pulses with a precise, skeletal shimmer, flickering between the wistful sighs of yesterday and the fierce urgency of now. There’s a tautness in every beat, a quiet fury lurking beneath polished restraint, as though each note were a whisper from a forgotten realm, each pause a plunge into lost memory. Like the kindred spirits of She Past Away and The Cure, this track is drenched in desire, strung tight between rebellion and reverie, a cool wash of neon light on the faces of lovers clinging to the night.
Striding boldly into the hard gleam of old-school post-punk’s avant-garde aftermath, Future Faces are deftly reviving the spare, steely edges of the ’80s with a fresh, piercing twist on classic the cold wave era’s frostbitten ambiance. Their sound hovers at the edge of something spectral, something stark—a place where the weightless sweep of goth-tinged atmospheres meets the driving throb of industrial’s relentless beat. Each note feels like a cold breath in a room gone quiet, capturing the haunted flickers of a past era and fusing them with an urgent, pulsing heartbeat for today.
With synths that murmur like secrets and vocals echoing from deep within, Neon Outlines stretches into a midnight realm where passion feels sharp as glass and moments burn like flares against the darkness. It’s a piece for those who savour the dance of transience, the glow of youth meeting the hush of inevitability, a song that finds beauty in the tension of love, loss, and the quiet pulse of the unknown.
Matt Baumann’s beautifully filmed performance video for the song captures Future Faces onstage, their energy palpable and infectious.
Watch the vide for “Neon Outlines” below:
Since their 2017 debut, Future Faces have carved out a niche with three personal albums and performances pulsing with rare intensity. This multi-instrumentalist collective stands out for its daring dedication, defying the stale standards of a bygone productivity. Their tunes strike a hedonistic chord against today’s austerity, coaxing listeners to revel amid the ruins of our reality. Each note blares like a rebellion against the mundane, each pause a deep dive into our collective past.
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