"Ninety-five", the title of this new opus, refers to her year of birth (1995), with a dose of Belgianness, which she already put in the foreground in "Brussels I love you".

This first single, a declaration of love to his hometown, was unveiled at the end of October as a foretaste.

The 12-track album, available since midnight Friday on music platforms, comes out the same day as its 26th birthday, with a promotion disrupted by its Covid infection.

Angèle had revealed to be sick last week on her Instagram account (to 3.1 million subscribers).

A press conference scheduled for Brussels this week had to be canceled.

On the cover of "Nonante-Cinq", the singer, the face of Chanel, poses with her hair in the wind, on a roller coaster ride in motion, an image supposed to describe the ups and downs of notoriety and overexposure.

"This is completely what I have experienced" for three years, said Angèle in an interview with public radio RTBF broadcast on Friday morning.

A documentary that Netflix has just devoted to him also evokes the downsides of success.

"This roller coaster is kind of how I see life, with climbs, descents, great moments of free fall and others that are a little unexpected," said the singer, " that's the idea of ​​this album ".

Sentimental breaks, isolation linked to confinement (mentioned in "More sense"), weariness towards "madmen" who "kneel" ("Free"): Ninety-five claims a more serious, more intimate tone .

"This pandemic has brought up a lot of anxieties and a lot of questions (...) I am someone very anxious. Despite a pretty happy appearance, I have a little sad fund", she says again. .

In "Démons", she sings in a duet with the Belgian rapper Damso, on electro beats composed once again by the French multi-instrumentalist Tristan Salvati.

"Brol", Angela's first album released in 2018, has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, two-thirds of which are in France, according to the Five Oh agency which manages its communication.

This million sales in France has earned it the "double diamond" certification, a rare thing.

This first opus was honored as "revelation album" of the year at the Victoires de la Musique, the French musical awards, in 2019.

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