Adèle Castillon - Tournée

Presented by AgapèA Aged 24, despite this irreverent youthfulness that frames her brown eyes with a pure, lively sparkle, Adèle Castillon has already lived several lives, fictional or real.

Presented by AgapèA

Aged 24, despite this irreverent youthfulness that frames her brown eyes with a pure, lively sparkle, Adèle Castillon has already lived several lives, fictional or real. Enough material to effortlessly nourish the intimate lyrics of a debut album that candidly recounts a first heartbreak, the torments of emotional dependency and dependency of every kind. All of it carried by the same poetic authenticity and freshness that already made the songs of Vidéoclub irresistible, the electro-pop duo with a very 80s nostalgia – somewhere between Odezenne meets Elli et Jacno – that she formed in Nantes with Matthieu Reynaud at the age of seventeen.

[…]While she was still at school, a first love, dazzling as all first loves are, gave her the desire to set up Vidéoclub with her then boyfriend. The video for "Amour plastique", cobbled together with makeshift means 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, brought to a close by a tour and a final video, "SMS", which wittily sums up three years of love and announces their break-up. Many others in Adèle Castillon's place might have lost themselves in it. But what follows is hers to write, alone, a quiet strength despite openly acknowledged fragilities, and a bumpy path that takes shape behind the perfectly aligned title of this debut album. Signed to the music label of Iconoclast, the ultra-creative image production company, she found in Surkin, a sharp electro talent as precocious as she is, the ideal partner to chart together 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 very Generation Z playlist: from Taxi Girl, Suicide, Billie Eilish, Madonna, Beach House, Tame Impala, Chromatics, Miley Cyrus, Daft Punk, Lio, Damso, Muddy Monk, Mylène Farmer to Agar Agar. The trembling beginnings of a young artist who