From the shadowy depths of Lausanne comes a one-man audio assault that’s about to hijack your speakers and your nervous system. Moon Construction Kit, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist warlock Olivier Cornu, is dropping “Chemicals” on December 5, and it’s a punch of pure, uncut “Power-Goth-Pop.”
Olivier Cornu is the singer, the writer, the guitarist, the knob-twiddler, the whole damn production team. He builds these cathedrals alone, layer by layer, and with “Chemicals,” he’s constructed his most vicious and visceral track yet.
The track is the fight between chaotic, emotional overload and a desperate, clawing need for stillness. Cornu himself says the song is “the sound of feeling too much,” and you can hear that disorientation in every searing guitar line and every pounding drum hit. This is the musical equivalent of your circuits overloading, the blistering noise you make before you finally, mercifully, go numb.
The evolution is real. Following his 2022 debut EP and the 2025 psych-pop single “Long John Silver,” Cornu has taken a sharp, deliberate turn into darker, more immediate territory. He’s melding his love for late-‘60s psychedelic intricacy with a modern, synth-pop tension, and the result is absolutely arresting. And let’s not forget the final polish from mixing engineer Guy Britton, who undoubtedly helped sharpen this track’s razor edges.
“Chemicals” is Moon Construction Kit carving out a corner of the alternative world that is entirely his own. It’s loud, it’s dark, and it doesn’t give a damn if you’re ready for it or not. Press play and feel the overload. This is the good stuff.
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