• Feldup

Biography

In October 2020, the French newspaper Libération dubbed Feldup the ‘Child of Rock’ upon the release of his twilight album, ‘A Thousand Doors, Just One Key.’ It wasn’t his debut album, but through it, and his collaboration with Talitres, Félix Dupuis realized that music was much more than an art form for expressing his inner turmoil, and more than just an occasional offshoot of his videography pursuits. At just 18, he spent most of his time nurturing his YouTube channel, which then had 120,000 subscribers and now boasts over 1.2 million followers. A band formed, and several concerts took place, drawing a passionate audience that saw in Feldup a direct reflection of their own daily lives and feelings.

Félix Dupuis began writing ‘Stared at from a Distance’ when he felt a profound need to articulate the overwhelming emotional distress he was experiencing. ‘Everything felt disjointed or abstract. Sometimes I’d write lines so brutally honest they were uncomfortable. They brought me solace, but I had no intention of letting anyone hear them,’ he recalls.

The album took shape, painfully. Cold ambient tracks followed noisier compositions, with more rock-oriented pieces eventually emerging. ‘Songs began to form suddenly when I stopped forcing myself to write about other things or sugarcoat my experience. I wrote these raw, cold, deeply intimate lyrics, added the instrumentation, and turned them into tracks.’ After this emotional upheaval, doubt set in. Should he release these songs? Make this trauma public? Support from loved ones convinced the musician. These compositions should be seen as a necessary catharsis – narrating the unspeakable – and Félix’s desire to bear witness, for himself and others.


Discography
Stared at from a Distance

Album , CD, VINYL (2LP), Digital
TAL131 — 2023


    Félix Dupuis began writing ‘Stared at from a Distance’ when he felt a profound need to articulate the overwhelming emotional distress he was experiencing. ‘Everything felt disjointed or abstract. Sometimes I’d write lines so brutally honest they were uncomfortable. They brought me solace, but I had no intention of letting anyone hear them,’ he recalls.

    This isn’t the place to delve deeply into the backstory of this album or its most harrowing details, as doing so might verge on voyeurism. ‘In 2020, when I had just come of age, someone over 30 who had known me for two years sexually assaulted me multiple times after years of conversation and grooming. A void opened up in my stomach and never closed. I began to self-destruct, losing the will to live. When I started writing this album in 2020, my pain was at its peak. Writing has always been essential for me, a way to divert my thoughts and make sense of the terrible things happening to me.’

    The album took shape, painfully. Cold ambient tracks followed noisier compositions, with more rock-oriented pieces eventually emerging. ‘Songs began to form suddenly when I stopped forcing myself to write about other things or sugarcoat my experience. I wrote these raw, cold, deeply intimate lyrics, added the instrumentation, and turned them into tracks.’ After this emotional upheaval, doubt set in. Should he release these songs? Make this trauma public? Support from loved ones convinced the musician. These compositions should be seen as a necessary catharsis – narrating the unspeakable – and Félix’s desire to bear witness, for himself and others.

    Feldup - “Stared at from a Distance” : 1. Waters - 2. Stared at from a Distance - 3. Naked and Afraid - 4. Dizzy - 5. Fear of Abandonment - 6. Shove It - 7. Moments of Sobriety - 8. Crying as a Weapon - 9. Death of an Illusion - 10. It Never Leaves - 11. To Love Again



    Tours
    Lesquin (59) / FR
    Centre Culturel de Lesquin [COMPLET]

    Lesquin (59) / FR
    Centre culturel de Lesquin [COMPLET]

    Tours (37) / FR
    Bateau Ivre [COMPLET]

    Bordeaux (33) / FR
    Rock School Barbey

    Nantes (44) / FR
    Stereolux

    Strasbourg (67) / FR
    La Laiterie

    PARIS (75) / FR
    Trabendo

    Marseille / FR
    Le Makeda

    Montpellier (34) / FR
    Rockstore

    Châteaurenard (13) / FR
    La Rotonde

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