ML – La Fête
After three years of discographic silence, Belgian singer-songwriter ML returns with “La Fête”, a delicate, suspended single that marks the first step toward her debut album ‘Tout bas’, due spring 2026. The track arrives via Vérité / Capitane Coop, accompanied by a music video directed by Simon Vanrie.
A gentle reappearance, like a shy smile slipped into the noise.
Written in one sitting on a national holiday evening, “La Fête” finds ML sitting on a patch of grass, slightly out of sync with a world lighting up around her. The track captures that blurred moment when collective joy collides with personal sorrow—without pathos, without artifice. A candid song, almost light, yet one that lets a discreet spleen seep through, like fireworks watched from afar.
Musically, ML remains faithful to the intimate signature that defines her: a low, unvarnished voice; stripped-back yet inhabited arrangements, shaped behind closed doors with her brother Aurelio (Aurel), then elevated by Julien Rauis (KAT). The song carries a delicate lineage of modern folk and bedroom pop, somewhere between Faye Webster, Julia Jacklin, and a hint of Françoise Hardy.
“La Fête” opens the door to an album that promises to be sensitive and pared-down, woven from details and confidences. ML explores the passage of time, the bonds that sustain us, the trials that shape us—but for now, she reveals only a fragment.
With “La Fête,” ML delivers a return that is both restrained and powerful, laying the first stone of a new chapter where every word feels measured, every note a heartbeat.
To accompany the release, ML unveils a music video directed by Simon Vanrie, shot at the Liège fairground amid rides, glaring lights, and a quiet sense of solitude in the middle of the noise—a visual that perfectly captures the song’s bittersweet tension between celebration and introspection.
ML is a Brussels-based singer and songwriter. After releasing two EPs in quick succession—’Changé’ (2022) and ‘Ailleurs n’existe pas’ (2023)—she continues her journey with ‘Tout bas’, a debut album of rare sensitivity. Here, she asserts a folk, poetic, and introspective style, rooted in simplicity and sincerity.
With elegance and precision, ML falls in line with artists such as Julia Jacklin, Big Thief, Françoise Hardy, and Faye Webster, whilst carving out a signature of her own: refined songwriting, soothing melodies, and an emotion that slips in “tout bas” (very quietly) to better reach the heart.
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