Paywalled Existence

With Reality Is Premium, Gravité Fresq sharpens their post-punk edge into a gleaming, high-gloss blade. The track pulses with sleek 80s synthpop textures—crisp drum machines, elastic basslines, and shimmering keys that feel both seductive and faintly suffocating. It’s the kind of production that sounds immaculate, almost luxurious, yet intentionally sterile, mirroring the song’s central anxiety: what happens when authenticity itself becomes a commodity?

True to Gravité Fresq’s aesthetic of “gloomy absurdity,” the song turns digital-age dread into something strangely danceable. Beneath its polished surface hums a quiet panic—the sense that we are swimming in endlessly generated noise while something unmistakably human slips further out of reach. The hook lands with mechanical precision, catchy yet curiously hollow, as if designed to loop infinitely in a world that no longer distinguishes signal from static.

Lyrically, Reality Is Premium captures the unsettling logic of the subscription era. The idea that “real” could require a membership fee feels exaggerated—until it doesn’t. The band leans into that tension, crafting a track that feels like a premium product: glossy, controlled, impeccably engineered. And yet, there’s an emotional vacancy at its core that feels deliberate, even confrontational.

Gravité Fresq has created more than a retro homage. Reality Is Premium is a stylish, icy anthem for a glitching world—one that invites you to dance while quietly questioning what, if anything, remains untouched by the algorithm.