After releasing his diamond-certified debut album at the end of 2018, Angèle, the phenomenon of the year, returns this November with a new edition of Brol. "Brol La Suite" includes 9 new unreleased tracks. After Stromae and Damso, to name but a few, Belgium has produced a new prodigy: Angèle, whose real name is Angèle Van Laeken. She is undoubtedly the phenomenon of the year with her debut album "Brol", a Belgian slang term that is particularly close to her heart. "I simply wanted to put a Belgian word in my album, especially since it has always made me laugh. Brol is chaos, disorder but optimistic and light, it's not at all pejorative. This word reminds me of my childhood, my country because I'm there less and less. I find it very reassuring." While the internet churns out Instagram artists on an assembly line, Angèle stands out from the crowd. At 23, she is shaking up the codes of the "game" and gently mocks "fame" and its vicissitudes. A pure product of her time, she transcends musical, clothing, social, or ethnic divides, much like Brussels, the capital of European urban pop, more uninhibited than Paname; a new urban pop that no longer needs to claim an identity, a class, a neighborhood, or colors. Angèle is a bedroom producer with a big "Do It Yourself" emblazoned on her oversized sweatshirt. She writes her lyrics, composes her own sounds, and offers a graphic aesthetic that reflects her, direct and impactful, by recruiting the very young Charlotte Abramow to handle her image. Coming from a family of artists and after completing academic jazz studies, Angèle started with covers of pop classics on her Instagram and built a universe with phenomenal success. Angèle perfectly embodies her generation, magmatic and syncretic, where the boundaries between musical genres are nothing more than a distant memory.
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