Pale Grey's new album 'It Feels Like I Always Knew You' is now available
Following the album Waves and its four million cumulative streams, Pale Grey now looks to the future with It Feels Like I Always Knew You, the third album from a perceptive band attuned to the world's turmoil and the challenges of our time. Emerging from the heights of Belgium, between eternal forests and a longing for elsewhere, the quartet nurtures its melancholic essence through songs of delicate charm. At the crossroads of electronica, dream pop, and the abstract influences of the hip-hop scene, Pale Grey sketches a singular universe.
Crafted in one of the hidden gardens of Belgian jazz alongside producer Ash Workman (Metronomy, Christine and the Queens, Baxter Dury), It Feels Like I Always Knew You takes us to the heart of everyday life—just long enough for a ride on public transport. There, among fellow passengers, the mind drifts, trying to imagine the lives of others. In a fleeting instant, imagination flourishes, freely navigating between fiction and reality, intuition and absurd certainties. Like in an Iñárritu film, poetic evocation triumphs over any realistic depiction.
Pale Grey’s new album stands at the bedside of our modern societies, weaving melodies deeply rooted in reality. Close to people and their experiences, the band explores and questions human nature. Strengths and weaknesses, love, wisdom, hopes, and wanderings intertwine in songs personalized by twelve names. These characters are the commuters of It Feels Like I Always Knew You. Their journey serves as a canvas for themes grounded in a disenchanted everyday life: the migration crisis, domestic violence, obscurantism, and other sensitive issues run through these lived stories.
To bring these themes to life, Pale Grey combines music with imagery: from Amin to Eve, Felix to Norma, Winston to Alba, every face in the new music videos belongs to someone who has experienced situations similar to those depicted in the songs. Staying as close as possible to these deeply emotional journeys, Pale Grey follows a path shared by thousands of lives.
On Tour
- 31/01 - Ancienne Belgique - Bruxelles - BE
- 01/02 - Le Belvédère - Namur - BE
- 19/02 - Paradiso - Amsterdam - NL
- 21/03 - Reflektor - Liège - BE
- 11/04 - The Waiting Room - London - UK
- 19/04 - La Scène - Malmedy - BE
- 08/05 - La Boule Noire - Paris - FR