Enfnts Terribles

This year, unfortunately, we didn’t get any new music from you. How was this year for you?

Interesting on several levels. Perhaps one of the most challenging years so far. My ambition, on the other hand, also grew, and I know better and better what I do and don’t want to do in this life. Writing your debut album only happens once, which also made last year very special.

In 2021, you released your second EP, Silver Foxes. How do you look back at that release?

With pride. For me, the second EP felt like a logical turn of events, songs that needed to be written. Musically, Aram Santy—my producer and co-writer—and I were in a good flow. I was able to translate the first cracks in my naivety into something good.

You worked on your debut album this year. How is that process going?

Intense but fascinating. About a year ago, the album’s theme started taking shape in my head. When life gets hard, I tend to wander off to other times. To other fantasy worlds, alternative worlds where I would have done different things differently… Escapism in an extreme form. All my life, I have been “suffering” from this, and lately, it has only become more so. For instance, at one point, I lost myself in the city of Venice. A city that in itself shivers with melancholy and nostalgia. The grandiosity of the city during the heyday of ‘the Queen of the Adriatic’ is in stark contrast to ‘the sinking city’ of today. How hard I wished I had known that city back then. But see, back then all that glamour also applied but to a small majority, which would not have made life better for me back then. And I’m starting to wander again… These themes, why I experience certain desires and feelings, are addressed in the album. With Venice on a beautifully decorated throne as a starting point.

Why did you choose this song specifically?

I first got to know the live version of Sade and found it breathtakingly beautiful, sad, and honest. Bringing this song was a nice challenge to tell a story that is not mine, trying to recognize and understand those emotions.

How are you looking at next year?

A mix of a lot of excitement and partly healthy stress!

When can we expect another release from you?

February 2023.

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Visuals and pictures by Leen Hoogmartens