Angèle's Instinct is out today: 13 tracks, with Justice, Soulwax and Caroline Polachek

Angèle's third album, Instinct, is out today, 16 October 2026, on her own GGL Records. It is 13 tracks long and it is her first full album since Nonante-Cinq in 2021, so a gap of more than four years.

If you are meeting her for the first time: Angèle is a Belgian singer, songwriter and pianist from Brussels who became one of the biggest French-language pop artists of the last decade. Her records sit between sharp, diaristic pop and dancefloor production, and she sings in French and English.

The guests

The guest list is the headline, and it leans electronic.

• Soulwax, the Belgian dance duo, appear on "Trop".
• Justice, the French house pair, are on "What You Want".
• Caroline Polachek and SebastiAn share "Love Triangle".

That is a pointed set of names for a pop record. Justice and SebastiAn come from the Paris dance label scene, and Soulwax have been rebuilding pop and club music from Ghent for more than twenty years. Polachek brings the art-pop end of the same spectrum.

The singles

Three songs came out ahead of the album. "Dis-le" arrived in June, "What You Want" with Justice followed, and "Une seule vie" ("only one life") was the third single, with a video released in late August. Earlier in the campaign she also put out a separate single, "run", with the Belgian techno DJ Amelie Lens.

What is on it

Beyond the guests and singles, the tracklist has French titles like "Au revoir", "On verra" ("we'll see"), "Je compte" and "Tout décider", alongside English ones such as "F4ck 4ever" and the closer, "NYC Blues". The record opens with a short intro that shares the album's name.

We are not reviewing it here. This is a guide to what the record is and who is on it; the full verdict belongs to the people who spend a week with it.

Where to listen

The official singles are on streaming services now, and the album arrives on all of them today. Browse more of the Belgian and French pop and dance scene on our European music coverage, and see Angèle's artist page for everything we publish on her.