(Paris) It is multiplying for its return: the long-awaited new album from Stromae will be called “Multitude” and will be released on March 4, the artist said on his networks on Wednesday.
“I am delighted to announce the title of the album, which is therefore Multitude, that’s why I use this magnificent filter ”, slips the Belgian maliciously on his networks, in a short video where his face is multiplied.
“It’s been a long time, see you soon,” he concludes, after recalling that he also returns from the beginning of 2022 (and until 2023) on stage (full dates of his tour on stromae.com).
Stromae, withdrawn from the musical circuit since 2015, has already unveiled a first single in mid-October, Health.
With this title dedicated to small hands, everyday workers to whom we do not always pay attention, we find his unstoppable style.
Or a frame mixing cumbia and electro to make a text shine in which he becomes a poet of the humble, to whom he raises a toast. “Truck driver, flight attendant / Baker or fisherman / A drink to the champions of the worst times”, he sings as well.
We also find her love of puns like “Céline … bataire, you take your jackets in the locker room”.
His latest album, Square root (2013, after Cheese in 2010) had tipped this 36-year-old musician into another dimension.
For better and 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 job, and as in any profession, when we work too much, we end up with a burn-out,” he conceded in 2018 in an interview with France 2 .
His big comeback on stage was announced in early October. The interpreter of Then we dance, Papaoutai Where Awesome had first formalized its presence at Rock en Seine, a festival in the Paris region, on August 28, 2022. Since then, many dates have been added before and after.
Its first three concert-events are scheduled in Brussels on February 22, Paris on February 24 and Amsterdam on February 27, 2022. The tickets for these first three shows were sold in their entirety in just a quarter of an hour on the day of their release. on sale Dec. 3, his record label said.