“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”
With a wink to David Lynch’s feverish fugitive romance, Mareux delivers his own neo-noir pulp love song with “Wild At Heart.” In Lynch’s film, Nicholas Cage’s Sailor clings to his creed — “This snakeskin jacket is a symbol of my individuality and freedom.” — while Laura Dern’s Lula whispers her fragile revelation, “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” And it was Lynch, of course, who went on to direct the smoldering video for Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game,” forever entwining Isaak’s sultry ballad with Wild at Heart’s fever-dream legacy. In Mareux’s hands, the touchstones of untamed romance and highway heat flicker again, refracted through chrome synths and an L.A. summer haze.
And Mareux’s “Wild At Heart” hits like a blissed-out drive down Sunset: brisk, confessional, and built for motion. His detached baritone glides over aerodynamic synths and a taut new-wave pulse, a sleek counterpoint to the song’s yearning core.
The production doubles down on Mareux’s increasingly filmic approach. He’s said, “I like when music sounds like found footage,” a principle that lends the single its grainy romance — intimate, immediate, and a touch dangerous. Written and recorded in his Los Angeles bedroom, the Nonstop Romance era folds in influences he absorbed while watching films on mute on an old CRT: Tarkovsky and Jodorowsky balanced against the glossy grit of Hype Williams.
Directed by Natalia McGowan and Anastasiya Bobrova, the song’s video leans into a Lynchian register while pushing it through a distinctly Californian filter. If Lynch’s Sailor and Lula blazed their way across America in a fever-dream of sex, violence, and Wizard of Oz hallucinations, Mareux and his partner in crime, Natalia, take the wheel here. “Wild At Heart” unfolds as a feverish joy ride turned decadent daydream, where noir romance collides with reckless abandon. The video opens with Mareux behind the wheel of a convertible, Natalia exuding danger and allure as she dances behind the windshield and sprawls across the passenger seat. It’s their Sailor-and-Lula moment — reckless lovers sealed inside their own orbit, with the road unspooling before them like fate itself.
From there, the ride bleeds into scenes of excess: dice games with tattooed figures in cowboy hats, money set aflame over whiskey glasses, and a house party brimming with sweat, lust, and abandon. Fruit platters are trampled underfoot, bodies tangle in pools and across tables, and the camera lingers on the intoxicated thrill of living on impulse. The imagery blurs Lynchian seduction with sun-baked Californian grit, balancing desire and destruction in equal measure. By its close, kisses under dripping water and ecstatic dance sequences crystallize the song’s title — an ode to lovers who live fast, burn bright, and remain untamed.
Watch the video for “Wild At Heart” below:
“Wild At Heart” appears on Mareux’s sophomore LP, Nonstop Romance — out now via Revolution / Warner Records — is dance-pop laced with a confessional darkwave edge. The album’s palette broadens his cold-kissed synthwork toward bright, club-ready tempos without shedding the melancholic afterglow.
Listen to “Wild At Heart” on Spotify, or stream the full album here.
Upcoming Mareux Live Dates:
- December 12, 2025: Fox Theater, Pomona, CA
- December 13, 2025: The Novo, Los Angeles, CA
More dates to be announced…
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