Adèle Castillon

Adèle Castillon at Espace Julien Marseille! At 24, despite the insolent youthfulness that gives her brown eyes a pure, vivid sparkle, Adèle Castillon has already lived several lives, fictional and real. Enough to effortlessly feed the intimate lyrics of a debut album that candidly tells of a first romantic breakup, the torment of emotional dependence and dependence itself. All with the poetic authenticity and freshness that had already made the songs of Vidéoclub irresistible—the electro-pop duo with a strong ’80s nostalgia, in the style of Odezenne meets Elli and Jacno—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, inspired her to form Vidéoclub with her boyfriend at the time. The video for “Amour plastique,” cobbled together with whatever resources were available and shared by a Mexican actor from a Netflix series who made it go viral, earned them tens of millions of streams. A legend was born, completed by a tour and a final video, “SMS,” mischievously summarizing three years of love and announcing their breakup. Another person in Adèle Castillon’s place might have lost themselves in it. But she writes what comes next herself, a calm force despite acknowledged vulnerabilities, with a bumpy journey taking shape behind the perfectly aligned title of this debut album. Signed to Iconoclast’s music label, the ultra-creative image production company, she found in Surkin, an electro talent as precocious as she is, the ideal partner with whom to chart a new musical horizon, combining the innocence of French pop with a homemade, uncompromising spirit, nourished by impeccable references as varied as Adèle Castillon’s Generation Z playlist, as well as Taxi Girl, Suicide, Billie Eilish, Madonna, Beach House, Tame Impala, Chromatics, Miley Cyrus, Daft Punk, Lio, Damso, Muddy Monk, Mylène Farmer and Agar Agar. The thrilling beginnings of a young artist who, we bet, will make her mark in the months to come.