French composer, producer, and performer Superpoze unveils Siècle, his fourth studio album and perhaps his most personal to date. Out now via Banville, the record distills nearly two years of creation into eight tracks that breathe with precision and quiet intensity. Composed between June 2023 and January 2025, it’s a record about time, how it expands, folds, and leaves traces that become sound.
Built around piano, strings, and analogue textures, Siècle moves between clarity and distortion, structure and dissolution. Opening with Statues, the album introduces an almost ritualistic pulse that flows into the reflective Obsession and the spectral calm of Gosélia / Fragments. Each track feels like a scene suspended in motion, a meditation that grows more human the longer it loops.
At its centre lies the title track, Siècle, a slow, circular composition shaped around repetition, resonance, and restraint. It’s a space where silence isn’t absence but material, sculpted with care. Pieces like Ravenne, 1321 and Mue evoke the fragility of memory, while Terre closes the album with a sense of release, as if exhaling after a long held breath.
Following the intricate storytelling of Nova Cardinale and the introspective textures of Opening, this new chapter feels like a synthesis of everything Superpoze has built so far. Co-produced and mixed by Sylvain de Barbeyrac, with arrangements by Leonardo Ortega and mastering by Alex Gopher, the album balances precision with vulnerability, every sound meticulously crafted yet deeply alive.
Even its artwork carries a personal echo: a photograph found in his mother’s old box, turned into the album cover, bridging past and present. Released, coincidentally, on the artist’s birthday, Siècle feels like a quiet celebration of endurance, of creation, and of finding beauty in the passage of time itself.