The Lyrical Age explores, through ten neo-ambient electronic tracks, the struggles and beauty of adolescence. A time when the mind and body are in flux, when some points of reference begin to waver while others emerge, and when every feeling is experienced with heightened intensity.
The album unfolds a narrative, immersive, and emotional form of electronic music, alternating suspended, ethereal, and introspective moments with more abrasive, high-tension tracks. The whole is shaped by dramatic builds that resonate as much with the body as with the mind.
The Lyrical Age
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Release November 7th 2025
Digital & vinyl (LP)
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Music : Alex Augier [composition, performance, production]
Mixing : Apollo Noir [Studio Noir, Vichy]
Mastering : Adrien Pallot [Chab Mastering, Paris]
Vinyl Pressing : Vinyl de Paris
Distribution (vinyl) : Inouïe Distribution
Distribution (digital) : Kuroneko
Art direction : Alex Augier
Typeface : Benoit Bodhuin [BB-Bureau, Nantes]
Additional design : David Benmussa [DavidB Studio, Paris]
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Release date : November 7th 2025 (Digital & vinyl)
The album’s title echoes an expression used by Milan Kundera, who associated the “lyrical age” with youth: a time of naïve exaltation, sometimes tinged with kitsch. The son of a renowned composer, he seemed destined to become a musician. But at a pivotal moment in his life, he chose literature instead, believing it better suited to expressing the concrete reality of existence, far from the lyricism he considered to be the very essence of music.
In counterpoint, The Lyrical Age fully embraces this lyrical dimension and, like a distant echo of the writer’s words, sensitively evokes the beauties and torments of adolescence.
This fragile age thus becomes a prism through which the album looks the transitional period we are collectively experiencing: a moment when our points of reference waver, when everything is being reshaped, yet when the deepest transformations also emerge. It conveys, in short, the sense that humanity is living through its own adolescence, marked by impulses and excesses, by awkward attempts, but also by an immense field of possibility.
Painting samples from Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, The National Gallery Collection, London, Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase by Rachel Ruysch, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Art direction by Alex Augier
Typeface by Benoit Bodhuin at BB-Bureau, Nantes, France
Additional design by David Benmussa at DavidB Studio, Paris, France
Alone
Single n°1
Release June 20th 2025
An intimate and emotional track blending melancholic piano with an atmospheric electronic landscape. It evokes the loneliness of adolescence, before a gentle voice brings a subtle sense of solace and hope.
Lives in Resonance
Single n°2
Release August 29th 2025
A rich, dynamic and emotional track, driven by melodic lines and intricate polyrhythms. It balances a sense of collective energy with moments of vulnerability. Towards the end, a melancholic piano emerges, bringing a more intimate and introspective quality to the piece.
Inner Voice
Single n°3
Release October 3th 2025
The track celebrates the quiet force that guides us from within, while confronting the outside voices that can pull us away from ourselves. A determined voice rises through an evolving electronic landscape, building towards an intense climax, a sonic metaphor for self-belief taking root.
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THE LYRICAL AGE
Label : oqpo records
Release date : November 7th 2025
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