Music videos with millions of clicks, sold-out concert dates, and an album with crazy appeal. 2018 could well be renamed the year Angela.
Angèle, a therapy
October 23, 2017, when Murphy's Law came out of its nest, marks the beginning of a flourishing boom. Belgian by origin, the young artist with 22 years Angèle Van Laeken, is adopted by the French-speaking world in a few musical notes. Murphy's Law has a crazy charm, as I Want Your Eyes or the youngest Jealousy have just as much. With Brol, the singer is ready to seduce the crowd, because listening to Angèle is a bit like offering a therapy of tranquility.
To believe that singing sounded almost obvious. Daughter of Marka (Belgian singer, editor's note), and sister of a rap revelation named Romeo Elvis, Angèle has always been thirsty for music. Since 2015, she shares on her networks videos where she takes the great Katy Perry, Lily Allen or Rihanna with a touch of humor. 3 years later, his first album Brol is in stores.
Singer-songwriter, multi-talented artist
Brol, possibly translated as "brothel", was written and composed almost entirely by the singer. His words are honest, his voice is honey, Angele colors as she protrudes, and unconsciously arms herself to triumph.
She engages La Thune to the tunes of a telephone ringtone before lengthening her work with a touch of reggae, continues with a feminist pen (Balance Ton Quoi), and evokes the Matins en solitaire, where crying is her allies. She tints her opus with melancholy by seizing a piano on Many, and balances her lucidity by shouting haro on the filters of the virtual in Victim of the Networks : "Why pretend to be well […] It's tempting to show them even if it's not true."
Angèle aims more for the "days without" than those "with" (Laziness, Murphy's Law), sings Tout Oublier with her brother, and rocks her voice on Your Queen by addressing homosexuality: "You would like her to be your queen tonight, you kings you don't care it's not what you like". After the unstoppable I Want Your Eyes, she denounces her enemy Jealousy, and closes her work with ironic and autobiographical rhythmic notes (Flou): " Everyone thinks you're great while you've done nothing / Everything has become blurry, alittle too crazy, for me".
Brol's 12 tracks are his own mirror and are part of the current era. With a touch of irony, a lot of feelings, and simplicity in totality, Angèle marries her words with her musicality without artifice, getting rid of any formatted radio frame.
9/10
Listen: Forget everything, your queen, jealousy
Discover the clip of Tout Oubli!
Angèle will embark on a tour on November 23 with a Parisian Trianon (sold out, editor's note), will put down her instruments in Montpellier, Marseille, Nantes, to finish at the Olympia on March 13, 2019.
