C’est Karma has shared a new single called ‘Gateaux’. It’s taken from her forthcoming Amuse-Bouche EP, which is out May 13 and includes the previously unveiled ‘Bubblegum’. Give it a listen below.
“Gateaux’ is a sign of our times, it’s about the young generations and our future,” Karma Catena explained in a statement. “I wanted to create an opposition between an ideal world and the world we are headed towards if we don’t act upon climate change. I address the children of the future that will be left with the ruins of our present.”
“I wanted the lyrics to be poetical and so the French words came to me naturally being strongly inspired by canonical French poets like Baudelaire and Éluard who address very dark topics in very poetic ways,” she continued. “I am fascinated by the way these authors shape images with words and tried to take this over into my own writing. Having been active in various climate activist youth grousp in my early teens, my frustration towards the political idleness grew over the years. A large part of my generation feels like our future is being jeopardised by those in power, and that’s what ‘Gateaux’ is about.”