You never quite know what you’re getting with Ascendant Vierge, and they, too, seem to construct their music with the goal of seeing just how much they can get away with. While with “Influencer” it takes a playful tone, a song like “Jamais Raison” shakes you to your core. Fernandez describes herself as a “concerned” artist who not so much denounces society’s failings as put them on display for people to gawk and worry over. The juxtaposition between the angelic vocals and devilish beats is akin to something 100gecs or PC music might put together, but more in concept than feeling.Īscendant Vierge, meaning “Ascendant Virgen”, is like dance music fused with symphonic metal a la Nightwish – picture a more humorous version of Nero. It matches the rest of their music, which incorporates that soaring voice with towering trance synths and galloping drum and bass.

It’s all excess, from the lead singer Mathilde Fernandez’s quirky opera to the acid-trip face filters.

A certain artist and soap-maker tweeted about Ascendant Vierge‘s extremely busy “Influencer” video, a warehouse rave curated for the era of Twitch and Instagram.

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