Lolo Zouaï – Reverie
Acclaimed artist and songwriter Lolo Zouaï announces her third studio album Reverie, out digitally on April 24th via Because Music.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 musician embodies a triad of culture — born in Paris, raised in San Francisco, and shaped by her Algerian roots — and she explores each thread beautifully throughout the genre-bending album. Today, Lolo also shares the album’s latest single and video for “Holding On,” a track that illustrates the tension between holding on to the past and loss, and the desire to move forward with your life.
After experiencing the loss of her best friend Hanna in 2021, Lolo took time to pause, to grieve, to write, and to rediscover the deeper meaning of her music. That raw emotion is present throughout “Holding On,” at times written with tears in her eyes. The video for “Holding On” was filmed in Lacanau, France and directed by Alex Acy and is a love letter to friendship.
Throughout Reverie, Lolo reinvents herself and reconnects with who she is after years of silence, grief, and rebirth and reflects deep introspection that blends vulnerability with self-assertion. Production flows smoothly through alternative R&B, hip-hop, pop and Arabic influences, creating dark, sensual, and cinematic textures. Singing equally in both French and English, Lolo’s voice is at the heart of the narrative. Each song is a journey through her wounds, memories, and dreams, where floating melodies and raw emotion intertwine to spark reflection and escapism in the listener.
Reverie also explicitly explores Lolo’s French roots, through French language collaborations with Dinos on “Les Mots” – a track where the two craft an intimate, romantic exchange built on desire, restraint and unspoken wounds; Lous and the Yakuza on “Lemon Squeeze”; and Disiz on “Coquelicot.” “Les mots” followed the album’s lead single, “3AM in San Francisco” – a track that was praised by The FADER, Rolling Stone and more, and effortlessly fuses her airy vocals with punchy trap production, and seamlessly bridges her roots as she shifts between English and French.
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