Pale Grey - It feels like I always knew you (2025)

We will remember for a long time the impact of Pale Grey with the arrival of their second album called Waves. The Belgian group had gone off the beaten track with this sublime mix between indie pop and synthetic dream-pop which allowed them to solidify themselves on the music scene and to count more than four million streams, which is not nothing. And the very big news is that the group intends to make its big comeback after six and a half years of radio silence with its successor entitled It feels like I always knew you.

Here, Pale Grey will be able to count on the precious help of Ash Workman at the controls for this new musical journey which promises to be audacious to say the least. The Belgian quartet will stage here twelve characters with different life paths that we find on a bus as perfectly illustrated by the cover in question. The result is an almost cinematic It feels like I always knew you where the creative duo Gilles Dewalque and Maxime Lhussier will aim wide musically speaking, as evidenced among other things by tracks like "Syd" which opens the show before aiming wide with other tracks with rich arrangements like "Adam" and "Eve" which follow. Pale Grey will go off the beaten track by broadening their musical horizons where their indie pop will take a turn sometimes hip-hop sometimes electronica or dream-pop with tracks for the least surprising but always as immersive as "Norma" or "Nikita". We thus go through the biographies of certain characters and discover stories as light as they are touching allowing the Belgian group to address several themes such as the breakup on "Felix", the migration crisis on "Amin" but also domestic violence and obscurantism through striking compositions such as "Winston" and "Alba". These are characters that we have met at least once in our lives and for whom we express empathy and invite us to question our humanity.

All the emotions and other contrasts intertwine on "Theodore" and on "Rose" where the complexity of human relationships is perfectly highlighted and where Pale Grey has managed to put to music with this narration that is fascinating to say the least with this It feels like I always knew you that will take us to the guts with each immersive listening.