Félicia Atkinson Reimagines Cult Horror Score for Upcoming Album

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Félicia Atkinson Reinvents a Cult Horror Score for New Album

Listen to “Les Yeux II” from the composer’s new companion piece to Georges Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visage By Jazz Monroe May 7, 2026 Save this story Save this story

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. Atkinson dedicates the record to the French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot . The “trial happened while I was in the process of composing the music,” Atkinson added. “I kept thinking of her strength and her decision to share her trial in order to reverse the shame.”

Last month, Atkinson released Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems , a collaboration with Christina Vantzou.

Sans Visage: 01 Les Yeux I 02 Les Yeux II 03 Les Yeux III 04 Les Yeux IV 05 Les Yuex V 06 Les Yeux VI 07 Sans Visage I 08 Sans Visage II 09 Sans Visage III 10 Sans Visage IV 11 Sans Visage V

Félicia Atkinson: 05-02 Brooklyn, NY - Public Records 05-06 Minneapolis, MN - Berlin 05-08 Chicago, IL - Renaissance Society 05-26 Vilnius, Lithuania - Composer’s House 06-05 Helsinki, Finland - Publics

_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/felicia-atkinson-reinvents-a-cult-horror-score-for-new-album/)._