The wait is over! Agar Agar are back with their brand new single "Trouble". The single follows their acclaimed debut album "The Dog And The Future" (2018), which received support from tastemakers all over the world. With the new single release, the two are also announcing their new album!

It has been over two years since the French duo of Clara Cappagli and Armand Bultheel caused a sensation with the release of their acclaimed debut album “The Dog and The Future”: it received hymns of praise from critics and tastemaker media all over the world. The Musikexpress described their sound as“winding head and heart music of the highest class”, Deutschlandfunk Kultur made Agar Agar the newcomer of the week and INDIE Magazine called them“French answer to electro pop”Agar Agar quickly found themselves at the top of the French music scene and on the radar of international tastemaker media.

The duo's mesmerizing English-language vocals are provided by Clara Cappagli, the other half of Agar Agar is Armand Bultheel. In Agar Agar's music, a single track can contain both 80s drums and synths, as well as modern elements and sounds. The mood can be tense and dark, or romantic and surreal, almost magical. This is exactly what happens when a band mixes art-pop and techno with ease.

Since creativity and live performance are two of the duo's strengths, Agar Agar will embark on a European tour starting in June with dates in London, Amsterdam, Switzerland and Brussels. The visual side of the new project will be heavily inspired by video games, as the band will release a video game along with the album to illustrate the story of the album.

Agar Agar wrote the new single "Trouble" in a moment of extreme boredom. It is a song about being locked in finite limits, the need to break out of them and the weariness that overcomes you when escape is impossible. Each new attempt to escape leads to the same results in an eternal new beginning, and the weariness taken to the extreme eventually turns into a neutral non-emotion. In the end, you even find a certain beauty in this endless cycle of renewal: it is the poetry of repetition, over which you have total control because you know it by heart.

For the official video, Agar Agar teamed up with French interaction designer Mélanie Courtinat. There were several reasons for this:"First of all, her work around the social and philosophical questions raised by video games seems very relevant and resonates with the writing of our album. We are therefore confident that she will be able to understand the challenges of our music and, above all, develop a personal vision that remains coherent with the artistic direction already taken."explain Agar Agar itself and add:"In addition, Mélanie Courtinat has already collaborated with Jonathan Coryn, an artist with whom we have been collaborating for several years, notably in the development of a video game - which could represent the fictional dimension of our music." 

“Trouble” is a playful track – in typical Agar Agar style – with jungle influences and bouncy synth lines. The new album “Player Non Player” will be released on January 20, 2023