Guillaume Bernard isn’t feeling very well. “My girlfriend is ill, and so am I,” the guitarist of atmospheric art-rockers Klone tells Prog when he joins our telephone call from his home in Poitiers. “I have Covid.”
Mercifully though, Bernard sounds okay, speaking in his thick French accent and answering every question that we throw his way at length. It’s a testament to his belief in the band he co-founded in 1995 – as well as their new release, Meanwhile – that he’s still so eager to talk while under the weather.
The band’s seventh album was forged through the fires of the pandemic. is the svelte and energetic sibling to 2019’s critically acclaimed . On one level, the relation between the two is obvious. Both are hypnotic
