Charlotte & Reinhard - Sins & Virtues (2024) [Hi-Res]

Belgian duo Charlotte & Reinhard combine enchanted art pop with synthy indie-dance on new album

On their first album as an actual duo, the Gent-based musicians Charlotte Caluwaerts and Reinhard Vanbergen present an ambitious suite of elegant instrument-driven pop songs, parsing through the sins and virtues of our increasingly stumbling world.

Waltzing string-arrangements, synth arpeggios, jangling guitars, and ethereal vocals mingle and unfurl through the album’s ten tracks, arranged with both lightness and depth. Owing to the duo’s diy-styled approach and rare multi-instrumentalist craft, the result is a pop album that doesn’t quite sound like anything else out there.

The album is fully written and produced by Caluwarts and Vanbergen. It features performances by drummer Gert Malfliet and strings by the quartet of Saartje Demuynck, Aya Pribilovskaya, Marie-Katrien Devos Bouts and Joanna Vlaeminck. Everything else is performed by the duo.

The duo (and real-life couple!) have worked together in over a decade, releasing music under bands The Happy and Rheinzand, while also collaborating on Vanbergen’s solo material.

Tracklist:
1 My Love
2 Anthem Song
3 Guardian Of Sleep
4 Sins & Virtues
5 Strawberry Moon
6 More Than This
7 Make Me Feel
8 Dagger
9 The Long Road
10 Slow Down