Angèle has in the present day (August 31) introduced particulars of a brand new album, ‘Intuition,’ that includes Justice, Soulwax, Caroline Polachek and extra.
The Belgian musician additionally previewed the album with the discharge of a brand new single and music video, which you’ll see beneath, for ‘Une seule vie’. This follows on from the beforehand launched ‘Dis-Le’ in June and ‘What You Need’ – a collaboration with Justice.
The brand new album is out on October 16 by way of Angèle VL Data / Sony Music and you may pre-order it right here.
New single ‘Une seule vie’ was produced by Angèle and long-time collaborator Tristan Salvati as is described as an “pressing name.” A press release added: “Written within the first particular person, it takes the form of a stream of thought wherein Angèle lays out her doubts and questions her relationship to the world, to fact and to phantasm…It holds previous, current and future collectively and stays within the hesitation, till what stays is the will itself, to dwell.”
The tune’s video comes with a music video written and directed by Thomas Mailaender and produced by Partizan.
A press release about this defined: “Filmed within the south of France and shot solely on 16mm, the video is a crafted, faintly surreal piece of labor wherein recollections and psychological pictures bodily break into Angèle’s actuality. Every little thing was made in entrance of the digital camera fairly than generated afterwards, by way of cease movement, superimpositions, mirrors and printed pictures, and the making of it’s left seen within the body.”
You may watch it right here:
The video additionally options footage of the photo voltaic eclipse earlier this month on August 12. Talking in regards to the video, Mailaender explains: “We imagined the video as a succession of recollections, visions and psychological pictures that bodily burst into Angèle’s actuality. […] Analogue thus turns into the pure language of the video: a fragile, imperfect materials to speak about reminiscence, nostalgia and time slipping away from us.”
The album in the meantime is described as “a return to instincts, to the a part of your self that exists earlier than expectation, efficiency and exterior noise.”
A press release added: “Throughout the album, Angèle explores the strain between management and launch, picture and actuality, and the completely different variations of ourselves that emerge once we cease making an attempt to suit into a set id. Digital at its core, the album makes use of chrome as a recurring visible and conceptual language: reflective, synthetic and chilly on the floor, however in the end handled as an area for transformation and freedom.”
The album’s tracklist reveals collaborations with Soulwax, Justice and Caroline Polachek. Try the brand new album art work and observe record right here:
Intuition’ Observe record
‘Intuition’ (intro)
‘Dis-le’
‘Au revoir’
‘Une seule vie’
‘Trop’ (ft. Soulwax)
‘On verra’
‘What You Need’ (ft. Justice)
‘Je compte’
‘F4ck 4ever’
‘Tout décider’
‘Je sais’
‘Love Triangle’ (ft. Caroline Polachek, SebastiAn)
‘NYC Blues’
Talking to NME in 2022, Angèle opened up about her patriarchy smashing observe, ‘Stability ton quoi’. “I really feel prefer it’s a extremely necessary second of the present, and I do know that individuals will sing it with me very loud,” she advised us on the time.
She continued: “Now lots of people are speaking about tips on how to struggle patriarchy and the truth that all of us must struggle it,” she defined; however she agrees there’s nonetheless a protracted option to go. “It is sensible to nonetheless sing this tune, figuring out that it has taken a lot extra [meaning] with the years in my life.”
And though she defined that issues are shifting, Angèle’s opened up about her personal experiences to us of being a sufferer to music trade misogyny.
“If you’re a lady and whenever you’re doing music, it’s all the time about your bodily facet. You’re too horny, otherwise you’re too shy, otherwise you’re not sufficient, otherwise you’re an excessive amount of,” she defined. “It’s all the time about how you might be and by no means about what you do…generally I really feel like as girls now we have to do double affords to be taken significantly.”
