Amelie Lens Drops Lengthy-Awaited Debut Album, 'AURA'

The Belgian techno celebrity’s debut is out now after a decade of steering the style as one among its main tastemakers.

Amelie Lens has launched AURA, her debut album, out now on her personal EXHALE imprint.

Full-length albums are a rarity in techno, and AURA arrives after greater than a decade of relentless touring, world pageant appearances and the rise of EXHALE from a label into a worldwide occasion sequence.

“After I was youthful, I might disappear into nightclubs and create my very own world in my head,” Lens stated. “Being within the nightclubs gave me this sense of belonging someplace, I felt connection and freedom I had by no means skilled earlier than. That feeling modified my life fully.

“So this album actually displays that entire journey. From enjoying tiny native golf equipment and driving myself by means of the evening for gigs, to standing on large pageant phases, changing into a mom, constructing EXHALE and studying learn how to steadiness all of it in life.”

The 11-track undertaking is sequenced like a kind of nights out, and informed by means of sound. It opens with a dramatic percussive intro that introduces the central mantra, “Aura. Activate. Frequency. Elevate. Physique. Resonate. Aura. Dominate,” earlier than plunging instantly into ‘our frequency,’ which options Lens’ personal vocals layered over pulsing manufacturing.

In the meantime, Lens flexes with the darkish, warehouse-driven sound of ‘the one one,’ the acid-drenched depth of ‘falling into acid goals’ and the after-hours Berlin power of ‘4am at RSO,’ an ode to the underground techno membership of the identical identify. She then stuns with ‘the power is us,’ a monitor whose peaks and valleys really feel designed to hold a crowd’s power together with them, earlier than closing with ‘no matter you do,’ a vibrant and dreamlike coda.

The album shares its identify with Lens’ immersive reside visible idea, developed in partnership with Excessive Scream. To have fun the discharge, the Belgian techno celebrity will carry out in entrance of a 14,000-capacity crowd at Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Wonderful Arts on September 5 earlier than heading to the US for exhibits in DC, Denver and Los Angeles.

You possibly can hearken to AURA beneath and discover the brand new album on streaming platforms right here.