Figments by Factice Factory

Release 15/05/2021

FIGEMENTS

Refers to an inner certainty and feeling that we believe to be real but that in fact is only the fruit of our own imagination, a kind of mirage. This fourth album was partly recorded during 2020 and 2021, a period of pandemic fear and restrictions we all had to face and adapt to against our own will. The need of escaping and creating became overwhelming, to gather and to let out our own personal emotions became urgent, the time had come again to experiment with sounds and to let down our masks and feel again free to express ourselves and to brake the borders which had been built around us.
In view of this new born and dull world order and the vital craving for dreams it became quite obvious for us to call our new release Figments.

There is a thin invisible line that connects the 7 tracks of this album, it is a journey, a wild and endless ride without limits nor targets to be reached, it is an escape lane, a trip for the soul and mind, a long road ahead filled with ghosts and blurred landscapes deserted towns where only dust is the witness of our passage. We wander like lost souls, throughout the empty nights in quest of a more brightful day somewhere there in the far...

We took it from scratch and without any boundaries in terms of style, we went on as we felt by then, going sometimes into a sultry neo-psychedelic sound, sometimes into something more shoegaze or noisy alike with of course keeping the print of our own musical influences and roots which could be considered as mainly post punk. A huge work was done on the post production and mastering, we all had in mind the typical Martin Hannett sound that marks the Factory Records productions and wanted to find something a bit similar, incorporating also more industrial and electronical elements into the whole project.
The final outcome seems to us quite massive.

Factice Factory is a French / Swiss band ,The project finds mainly its influences in the movements of the early 80's such as Cold Wave, Minimal Wave and Post Punk .
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