Alex Van Pelt and the synth laden dreamy crush of "Broken Heart" (Official Video)

"you're so hard to forget that I know it's for the best..."

Everyone has had their heart broken and maybe the younger you are it feels the most painful even though looking back that momentous hurt may now seem kind of silly or, at least, overstated, exaggerated. Sometimes I think that disassociation of our own feelings or what feels crushingly hurtful might simply be a function of our heart becoming calloused and hard as we get older, not an overstated pain in our youth (or at least a little bit of both). French singer-songwriter, musician Alex Van Pelt (member of the bands Coming Soon and Mont Analogue, and guitarist for Sierra Manhattan, François Virot or Adam Green) taps into majesty of love and loss on "Broken Heart". Therein amid dreamy acoustic guitar, a universe of synths and Van Pelt's tender vocal aesthetic is the stuff of teenage resonance, dashes of whimsy, good feelings without the benefit of recreational enhancements. It feels like a song that could of been in The Neverending Story. High praise. Alex Van Pelt's sophomore LP, Global Crush, is due out October 2021.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Alex Van Pelt writes songs for ghosts and broken hearts.

French multi-instrumentalist Alex started making music fifteen years ago when he was still a teenager, in bands such as Coming Soon, Mont Analogue, or as a guitarist for Sierra Manhattan, Norma, François Virot and Adam Green. But today he grows up and shows what he’s made of as a solo artist.

After his debut album Tum Tum (2019), in which he stated the basis of a rich and sensitive musical vocabulary made of DIY synth and post-romantic songs, he cultivates and confirms his originality with his new opus, Global Crush (out in October 2021). Words reverberates with sounds, and structures assumes ever shifting shapes : passed Global Crush’s melodic immediacy, one soon perceives a will to disrupt the conventional ground rules of pop music.

Like in a Kitano or Wong Kar Wai movie scene, Alex’s songs mix melancholy and humor. He has put together the intimate patchwork of Global Crush in a landscape painter fashion, and the result somehow works as a map to the artist's interests and influences (to name a few: the Everly Brothers’ breakup songs, Supertramp’s melodies, Daniel Clowes comics and video games such as Final Fantasy and the Sims).

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