Adele Castillon

Presented by Agapè At 24 years old, despite the insolent youth that bathes her brown eyes in a pure and vivid glow, Adèle Castillon has already lived several lives, fictional or real.

Presented by Agapè

At 24 years old, despite the insolent youth that bathes her brown eyes in a pure and vivid glow, 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 dependence, and dependence itself. All with the poetic authenticity and freshness that already made the songs of Vidéoclub irresistible – the electro-pop duo with a very 80s nostalgia – à la Odezenne meets Elli et Jacno – that 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  », mischievously summarising three years of love and announcing their breakup. Another might have gotten lost in it. But the next chapter is hers to write, alone, a quiet strength despite assumed 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 chart a new musical horizon together, 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, from 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