Dialgonale des yeux

Diagonale des yeux is the name of the airlift between EYE and panoptique, Brest and Marseille, their

bedrooms and studios. First sonic jumps gave Madeleine, a twelve-song LP released in february 2026 by

Knekelhuis.

“Music boxes, miaows and strange melodies pepper the whimsical and charmingly lo-fi post-punk of Laurène

Exposito and Théo Delaunay. Their approach is anchored in the outsider pop and post-punk of 1980s

Europe, which embraced discordant instrumentation and disaffected vocals. These 12 tracks are charmingly

lo-fi, built around rudimentary synth and guitar melodies that often careen into strange directions. Acolytes

jumps from frenetic punk jam into swooning breakdown and back again within just 90 seconds; Le Rayon

Orchidée stumbles groggily to a halt like a malfunctioning music box. Both sing, adding to the theatrics:

playing around with effects, they range from pitch-shifted, kitten-like miaows to macho groans.

The lyrics for Diagonale des Yeux’s debut album were written in the style of an exquisite corpse game, with

members Laurène Exposito and Théo Delaunay taking it in turns to patch together ephemeral thoughts and

themes in a mix of French, German, English and Spanish. The bizarre, multilingual stories that emerged

match the French duo’s ramshackle, home-recorded sound, which features everything from toybox

percussion to farmyard sound effects.”

Safi Bugel (The Guardian).