Singer Angèle releases her second album “Nonante-Cinq” in advance

With a week in advance on the date initially announced, the Belgian singer Angela released on Friday, December 3, 2021 his second album, three years after “Brol” which has been a phenomenal success, selling 1.5 million copies.

“Ninety-five”, the title of this new opus, refers to her year of birth (1995), with a dose of Belgianness, which she already put in the foreground in “Bruxelles je t’aime”. This first single, a declaration of love to his hometown, was unveiled at the end of October as a foretaste.

Promotion disrupted

The album with 12 tracks, available since Friday 12:01 am on musical platforms, released on sound day 26th anniversary, with a promotion disrupted by his Covid infection.

Angèle had revealed to be sick last week on her Instagram account (to 3.1 million subscribers). A press conference scheduled for Brussels this week had to be canceled.

The setbacks of success

On the cover of “Nonante-five”, the singer, the muse of Chanel, poses with her hair in the wind, on a roller coaster ride in full motion, an image supposed describe the ups and downs of brand awareness and overexposure.

“This is completely what I have lived” for three years, said Angèle in an interview on public radio RTBF aired Friday morning. A documentary that Netflix has just devoted to him also evokes the downsides of success.

“This roller coaster (roller coaster) is a bit like how I see life, with climbs, descents, great moments of free fall and others a little unexpected ”, confided the singer,“ here is the idea of ​​this album ”.

Your more serious and more intimate

Sentimental breaks, isolation linked to confinement (mentioned in “More sense”), weariness towards “madmen” who “kneel” (“Free”): Nonante-five claims a more serious, more intimate tone.

“This pandemic has made come up full of anguish and full of questions (…) I am a very anxious person. Despite a pretty happy appearance, I have a little sad fund, ”she says again.

In “Démons”, she sings in duet with the Belgian rapper Damso, on electro beats composed once again by French multi-instrumentalist Tristan Salvati.

The “Brol” phenomenon

“Brol”, Angela’s first album released in 2018, sold at 1.5 million copies worldwide, two thirds of which are in France, according to the agency Five Oh which manages its communication. This million sales in France has earned him the “double diamond” certification, a rare thing.

This first opus was honored as “revelation album” of the year at the Victoires de la Musique, the French musical awards, in 2019.

Source: © 2021 AFP

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