The track was uploaded to music platforms at the same time. Stromae’s new album, Multitude, will be released on March 4 and it is one of the most anticipated French-speaking records of 2022. The lover of Coralie Barbier, withdrawn from the musical circuit since 2015, had already unveiled a first single in mid-October, Health, dedicated to small hands, everyday workers who are not always paid attention. This time, Hell is a bit darker and more personal. Like an echo of his past torments.
His latest album, Square root (in 2013, after Cheese in 2010), had tipped this musician into another dimension, for better or for worse. This public and critical success had taken him on two years of crazy tours around the world which had wrung him both physically and mentally. “Even if we sell dreams, it remains a profession and, as in any profession, when we work too much, we end up with burnout“, he conceded in 2018 in an interview with France 2.
The first three concert-events of his tour (which will take him until 2023) are scheduled in Brussels on February 22, Paris on February 24 and Amsterdam on February 27, 2022. Tickets for these first three shows have been sold in full. in just a quarter of an hour on the day they went on sale on December 3, his record company had said.