Meetings, writing sessions, songs that, like me, were fueled by travelling back and forth between London and Brussels". This is how Ellie Delvaux aka Blanche sums up the three years that passed between one evening in spring 2017 when she revealed herself to the whole of Europe with City Lights and her first album, Empire, which is out today.
All the tracks on Empire were written or co-written by Ellie Delvaux, recorded between London and Brussels and co-produced by Rich Cooper (Banks, Mystery Jets, Lucy Rose) and François Gustin (Girls In Hawaii). The album presents a stunning journey through electronica, to indie and pop. Drenched in Cooper’s signature production style, it’s a release that ebbs and flows through the nuanced electro-pop leanings of tracks like Fences and Summer Nights, to the leftfield electronica sounds of Empire and Only You. Blanche’s outstanding vocal is the main consistent, reminiscent of Florence and the Machine, London Grammar, Lapsley and Sigrid.