‘Modern Night’ is a vampiric seduction that merges ‘post’: soul, funk, italodisco, and new wave with a noir cinematic aesthetic—linking David Bowie to Gaznevada and David Sylvian, Scott Walker to The Human League and the Style Council. Written, performed, and produced by Fernet himself, Modern Night was recorded at Duna Studio in Ravenna and later mixed and mastered by Maurizio “Icio” Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher), whose touch enhances its spectral clarity and analogue warmth.
“I wanted this record to feel like a dark soul album,” Fernet explains. “A place where echoing pianos, rebel angels, and ‘60s ghosts meet minor chords and broken-down synths. Where the funk doesn’t smile—it disappears down an alley in search of something it lost.”
If there’s a narrative thread that binds ‘Modern Night’, it’s the character of the Sunlight Vampire, introduced in the first single of the same name. Half-metaphor, half-ghost, this figure roams the album’s ten tracks, transforming nostalgia into a political act and melancholy into a form of resistance. This isn’t simply hauntology in sound, but in posture: a refusal to accept the shiny surfaces and forced optimism of the present.
Musically, Modern Night defies easy categorisation. There are echoes of AOR radio ballads, post-industrial funk, and soul music stripped of optimism. Think of it as future nostalgia with dirt under its fingernails: a deeply contemporary work that rejects digital perfection in favor of analogue imperfection. As Fernet puts it: “In an era of over-edited sound, the most radical act might be to let things breathe.”
The production choices reflect this ethos. “I wanted a sound that felt current, but produced through old-school techniques,” Fernet says. “Even though many of the references come from the past, their combination and reinvention can still generate something new”.
SOURCE: Official Bio
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