When Florent Salfati stepped onstage at Paris’ La Maroquinerie on March 19, 2022, he realised that something had changed. Exactly one year on from dropping terrific third album Lost In The Waves to a tidal swell of critical and commercial acclaim, the LANDMVRKS frontman and his Marseilles-based bandmates understood that their scene was on the rise, but had grown accustomed to the pandemic era’s stifled taste of success. No number of streaming stats nor units shifted, however, could match the visceral sensation of being enveloped by a sold-out crowd in his nation’s capital. “The rock and metal scene in France hasn’t historically been huge,” Flo explains. “We don’t have a lot of heavy music media. It’s not really ingrained in our culture. Maybe that show was only 500-cap...