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Listen to “Les Yeux II” from the composer’s new companion piece to Georges Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visage

Photo by Bartolomé Sanson

Félicia Atkinson has a new album on the way. Long a fan of Georges Franju’s cult horror movie Les Yeux Sans Visage , the French composer decided to reinvent the score wholesale—originally for the Belgian cultural center Viernulvier’s Videodroom series, and now on record. A track from Sans Visage , “ Les Yeux II ,” is out today as a single. Listen to that below, ahead of the record’s release on June 26.

Sans Visage , which follows Atkinson’s solo records Space as an Instrument and Promenades , is a 34-minute cut of her full 90-minute score. “Through the music, I decided to bring back [the characters’] empowerment despite what they endure,” she said in a press release, alluding to the film’s villain, a surgeon who becomes obsessed with performing a facial skin graft on his daughter.…