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Glass, rain, and the memory that won’t leave.
The first Monsieur Égaliseur track to feature a female voice.
#depechemode #synthpop #darkwave
ABOUT THE TRACK
“The Sun & The Rainfall” marks a quiet turning point — the first Monsieur Égaliseur song with a female vocal. It’s an original dark synthpop cut: cool, steady, and built for late hours. The track moves with measured restraint — a clean pulse, wide pads, and a hook that prefers tension over drama. It nods to Depeche Mode’s A Broken Frame without imitating it, turning memory and rain into motion. Serious sound, subtle revolution.
THE VOCALIST – Anwen Clarke
Cardiff, Wales. A calm, clear delivery with a slight Welsh softness under the edge. She sounds like someone remembering while walking home in the rain — precise and unhurried. Her friends say she always sings on crosswalks “because the beat is already there.” Perfect for a track about motion and memory.
LYRICAL THEMES
Echoes of loss and recognition — photographs that fade, gardens that refuse to grow, silence that won’t leave. Key lines like “Leave in silence” and “The meaning of love” reappear as ghosts in a new story. It’s about what stays when everything should be gone. Earnest in tone, ironically composed.
COMPOSER INSIGHT
I wanted a voice that could carry distance without coldness. After a string of male vocals, it felt right to let someone else open the window. The idea was simple: write a memory that moves. She sang it like a weather report for feelings — exactly what the song needed.
SOUND & STYLE
• Core: Dark Synthpop / Darkwave
• Influences: Early 80s UK electronics, Italo and modern minimal pop
• Character: restrained, hypnotic, elegant, nocturnal
• Sound Image: steady beat, cool female vocal, wide synth backdrop
• Tempo/Danceability: mid-tempo groove; floor-friendly, headphone-safe
• Suitable for: night drives, dim-lit clubs, quiet repetition of old names
FOR FANS OF
• Depeche Mode — mid-tempo devotion with a knowing wink
• Ladytron — precise electro cool with female lead
• Austra — dark synthpop gravity and elegant lift
• Boy Harsher — minimal darkwave pulse and slow magnetism
• Chromatics — Italo-tinted night atmosphere, glassy pads
• Desire — neon nostalgia wrapped around a measured hook
• Marsheaux — sleek DM-schooled female synthpop clarity
• Cold Cave — icy textures, stoic drive, sharp lines
• TR/ST — brooding tone over disciplined rhythm
• NINA — synthwave-adjacent melancholy with clean contours
PRESS & CRITIC VOICES
“Turns quiet restraint into a late-night signal you can follow.” (Velvet Antenna)
“A new voice in Égaliseur’s world — and it fits like rain on chrome.” (Night Bus Quarterly)
“Minimal drama, maximum pull — the sound of memory behaving.” (Glowline Review)
FINAL NOTE
A dark synthpop track about memory, weather, and the first moment of change. Cool voice, clean pulse, elegant melancholy. The past gets a new timbre — and it’s female.
The frame bends; the melody doesn’t.
#newwave #ebm #darksynth #retrowave #minimalwave #coldwave #electropop #80smusic
LYRICS
Leave in silence
Leave in silence
I tried to leave in silence
but the monument still towers inside me
Your shadow carved in stone
a memory that won’t decay
In my secret garden
where nothing blooms but echoes
I hide among the branches
with nothing to fear but time
A satellite drifts across the void
transmitting fragile signals
pointing to a place where
nothing to fear remains
The sun and the rainfall
collide in broken meaning
The sun and the rainfall
still haunt the only love I knew
I see you in static windows
reflections torn and fractured
The meaning of love dissolves
as a photograph of you burns in my hand
A satellite whispers
there is nothing to fear
yet I’m still haunted
by the sound of see you disappear
The secret garden closes
branches heavy with silence
I shouldn’t have done that
but the memory won’t release me
The sun and the rainfall
pour through the broken frame
The sun and the rainfall
wash away a photograph of you
Shouldn’t have done that
Shouldn’t have done that
The monument trembles
beneath the satellite sky
Your photograph fades
but the meaning of love survives
My secret garden burns
drenched by the rainfall
and still I see you
in the silence I cannot leave
The sun and the rainfall
collide in silence
The sun and the rainfall
carry the meaning of love
The sun and the rainfall
hold the photograph of you
Leave in silence
Leave in silence
