In a world obsessed with productivity, Sarah Maison dares to just be.

With “Exister”, the French singer-songwriter and art-school visionary delivers a hypnotic and rebellious anthem that feels less like a song and more like a declaration. Released June 25 via Capitane Records, it opens with a single, grounding line: “Like an oak tree in the city, I stand.” What follows is a guitar-driven fever dream that swings between psych-rock surrealism and razor-sharp pop resistance, a track that distills the existential howl of our times into four minutes of sonic combustion.

Self-written, self-arranged, and recorded with Steve Surmely at Studio Pipo, “Exister” places Maison firmly in the lineage of artists who use beauty as a weapon and metaphor as a map. Over churning guitars and shifting time signatures, her voice cuts through the noise with both delicacy and fire. It’s a protest song, yes, but also a meditation — a shimmering, slow-burning rejection of neoliberal absurdity.

“We work more to earn more, we buy things we don’t need — endless demands that pull us away from our essence. Meanwhile, trees are allowed to just be. No one judges them when they’re bare in winter. They change, and we accept it. Why can’t we?”

Born in the south of France and now based in Paris, Maison has long operated at the edge of genres — her background in visual art (Villa Arson School of Art, Nice) shaping her music’s stark, symbolic power. Live, she turns songs into immersive tableaux, working with director Nissim Tretiakov to create performances that are part ritual, part revelation. This November, she brings that vision to La Boule Noire (Paris) — her first live show since announcing her debut full-length, expected in 2025.