Adèle Castillon - Tournée

Presented by AgapèA, at 24 years old, despite the audacious youth that imbues her brown eyes with a pure and vivid sparkle, Adèle Castillon has already lived several lives, fictional or real. Enough to effortlessly fuel the intimate lyrics of a debut album that candidly recounts a first romantic breakup, the torments of emotional dependency and dependency in general. All with the poetic authenticity and freshness that already made the songs of Vidéoclub irresistible – the electro-pop duo with a very 80s nostalgia – think Odezenne meets Elli et Jacno – which she formed in Nantes with Matthieu Reynaud, at the age of seventeen. [...]

While still in high school, a first love, as dazzling as all first times, made her want to form Vidéoclub with her then-boyfriend. The music video for “Amour plastique”, put together with makeshift means and shared by a Mexican actor from a Netflix series who made it viral, attracted tens of millions of streams. A legend was born, culminating in a tour and a final music video, “SMS”, cleverly summarising three years of love and announcing their breakup. Another might have lost herself in it. But the next chapter is hers to write, alone, a quiet strength despite acknowledged fragilities, and a bumpy journey that unfolds 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, a sharp electro talent as precocious as herself, the ideal partner to together forge a new musical horizon, combining the innocence of French pop with a homemade and uncompromising spirit, nourished by impeccable references, as varied as Adèle Castillon’s very Gen Z playlist, including 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 thrilling beginnings of a young artist who