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You’ve put out an album in 2018 and one this year. How different was it to make these projects knowing there’s five years between them?

Jonathan: It was different because we wanted to make the music a bit more for festivals. We wanted it to be more danceable and feel like a party. We worked on JUNGLE for two years and tried to experiment a bit more to find a new sound.

Why did you base yourself for this project more on the live aspect? Is that partially because of the success of the live shows for DANCEHALL?

Guillaume: After we released our album DANCEHALL, we toured a lot and saw how people reacted to our music. That’s why when we’re in the studio, we’re already thinking more about the live part. That’s probably why some songs are more danceable.

Another important aspect of The Blaze, besides the music, are the music videos. How do you work on the visual concepts?

Jonathan: For every music video we made so far, we tried to work differently from the one we already did. For example, for “DREAMER” we really wanted to talk about the human crisis and refugees. It was something super important for us. For “MADLY”, the process was totally different because the song was already out. It’s a tricky track to think of a music video for. In the end, we tried to rework the music to make it fit with the imaginations we had in mind. The story that we wanted to tell is about a boy who’s going to his first rave and we wanted to bring an ode to festival culture. We had the idea and shot the music video in Belgium. We’re very happy with the video.

You put human and emotional messages in your songs. What makes it so important for you tell all these stories, especially with this danceable music?

Guillaume: Maybe in the last video, people could see that our message is just to be yourself because a rave party at a festival is exactly a place where you can be yourself. You can dance, enjoy time with friends, maybe take some drugs, or fall in love. That message of celebration and what it is to be young and free, is not necessarily a message and maybe more poetry about life.

Jonathan: I think it’s more about the emotions that we try to bring to the listener more than a message. We can bring emotion to the listener via the music, but we can add another layer with a music video and another layer with the live show. We just try to underline the emotion of a track in different ways.