Berlin-based French-British artist Aliénore has been slowly and deliberately conjuring her own musical universe, one woven from mist, myth, and the moonlit edge of emotion. Her 2023 debut EP Métamorphose introduced her as a voice of gothic elegance and ambient mystery. But now, with the forthcoming EP Mirage (released this November 7th, 2025, on digital and limited-edition cassette), she drenches the spell. A five-track journey through duality, empowerment, and the dark feminine, Mirage blurs the border between dream and waking life. “It is a reverie, a morphing, a mirage,” she says, and the music follows suit.
The opener, “Solace, an Incantation”, breathes life into the EP like a ritual. Ghostly vocal layers drift into a droning ambience, as if her voice is echoing from the inside of a cathedral hidden in deep forest. It doesn’t begin so much as materialise from mist, whispering a spell that pulls listeners into her world.
Then comes “Lilith”, the lead single released back in September alongside a Berlin-shot music video by an all-FLINTA team, fitting for a song rooted in female autonomy and mythic rebellion. Here, Aliénore’s soprano takes on a fierce, smouldering quality. The synths throb, the drums stomp, and she reclaims the legendary demon-goddess not as a heroine of self-possession.
“In the Mirror’s Surface” introspects with mesmerizing strings slowly fading in amidst gentle piano before we are in contact with the sound of running water, and the singer’s wails heard echoing off the walls. She finally emerges singing passionately, with her voice soaring over a deep bass engulfing the soundscape in a gravitas.
“Chimaera” injects a more shadowy pulse, with electronic rhythms slithering beneath ethereal melodies, like one identity shifting into another under flickering light.
The title track “Mirage” closes the circle, shimmering and celestial, the sonic equivalent of staring into heat-haze: beauty that dances just out of reach, inviting you to chase it anyway.
Throughout this EP, Aliénore merges the mystical drama of Kate Bush, the spectral edge of Chelsea Wolfe, and the cinematic hush of Agnes Obel, yet her voice remains unmistakably her own. Mirage isn a portal, coaxing you into the liminal space where power, vulnerability, myth, and memory meet.
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Review by: Naomi Joan