ADÈLE CASTILLON - LE SPLENDID - LILLE

At 24, despite the insolent youthfulness that casts a pure and sharp sparkle in her brown eyes, Adèle Castillon has already lived several lives, fictional or real. This effortlessly feeds the intimate lyrics of a debut album that bluntly recounts a first breakup, the torments of emotional dependency and dependency plain and simple. All of this is delivered with the poetic authenticity and freshness that already made the songs of Vidéoclub so irresistible—the 80s-nostalgia electro-pop duo, in an Odezenne-meets-Elli-et-Jacno style, that she formed in Nantes with Matthieu Reynaud at the age of seventeen. […]

While she was still in high school, a first love, as dazzling as all first times are, inspired her to start Vidéoclub with her boyfriend at the time. The music video for "Amour plastique," cobbled together with whatever they had on hand and shared by a Mexican actor from a Netflix series who made it go viral, brought them tens of millions of streams. A legend was born, culminating in a tour and a final video, "SMS," which playfully summarized three years of love and announced their breakup.

Elsewise, Adèle Castillon might have gotten lost in it all. But she is writing the rest of her story herself, a quiet force despite her acknowledged vulnerabilities, with a bumpy journey taking shape behind the perfectly chosen title of this debut album. Signed to the music label of Iconoclast, the ultra-creative image production company, she found in Surkin—an electro talent as sharp and precocious as she is—the ideal partner to carve out a fresh musical horizon together, combining the innocence of French pop with a homemade, uncompromising spirit, fueled by impeccable references as varied as Adèle Castillon's very Gen Z playlist: Taxi Girl, Suicide, Billie Eilish, Madonna, Beach House, Tame Impala, Chromatics, Miley Cyrus, Daft Punk, Lio, Damso, Muddy Monk, Mylène Farmer, or Agar Agar. The trembling beginnings of a young artist who, we bet, will be a force to be reckoned with in the months to come.