
French electronique pop noir is not a term I’m familiar with. Jun Suzuki — known professionally as Einleit — may have invented this style or, perhaps, simply perfected it. On his newest album Lovers Be Alert, the offerings from the half-French half-Japanese former opera singer attempt to reconcile matters of heart and soul with grace. Both the song and video “Pull My Heart” are ambient, brooding, evocative and intricately fulfilling as they wander the precipice between light and dark.
BONUS: Here’s yet another track from Einleit entitled “Colourblind”