French Artist Mathieu Saïkaly Shares Cinematic Music Video For “Neptune”

French pop artist Mathieu Saïkaly has shared new single “Neptune,” an intimate track embodying his affinity to break away from the typical landscape of French pop through his choices of melody and arrangements. 

Driven by fast, urgent guitar plucking, “Neptune” is a somber track about the feeling before falling apart. The song is built around the moment you realize that you lose the other, where that person goes further and further from you and you can’t find a way back to them – you have forgotten how you got into this storm and cannot find a way out, facing the inevitable. Saïkaly’s voice fills the sound atop the instrumentation, the entire track steady and insistent right up until the end, where the song itself comes apart. 

The music video for “Neptune” mimics the disorienting sensation of being trapped in a storm. Saïkaly and his guitar are seen in outline, visible yet unclear, as the camera swirls around him. Letting the arrangement take centre stage even when watching the videos, listeners will first take in the nervous but soft guitar, like the impacts of the raindrops from a squall on the sea, followed by an aerial voice, like a misty veil, and lastly a few notes from a kalimba, to crystallize the mixture.

An independent artist, Saïkaly is always looking for new, impactful ways to capture emotions – whether through intimate and raw tracks or diving into the depths of electro to bring out new unexplored angles of emotion.

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