Après La Nuit – Aller-Retour (Digital/CD Album – Echozone)
Three years after their debut album, Richard Abdeni (formerly of Les Anges De La Nuit) and Marilyne B. return as Après La Nuit with their second album, “Aller-Retour.”
The album features 13 tracks that stay very much in line with their debut and feel like a direct continuation of Les Anges De La Nuit, this time enriched with female vocals alongside Richard Abdeni’s voice. The duo’s sonic identity is easy to define: a danceable, melancholic form of Electro-Wave. Its strength — and at the same time its main weakness — lies in the reliance on a constant, repetitive formula. This approach can be infectious, yet also becomes monotonous due to the lack of real diversity. The lyrics are predominantly in French, though a few tracks include English vocals. Occasionally, a song stands out thanks to a slightly more pronounced lead.
I continue to believe that Après La Nuit is a band with far greater potential than what they have revealed so far. This follow-up certainly doesn’t sound bad, but it doesn’t quite reach the level of a top-tier album either. (Rating:7).
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About Après La Nuit
Après La Nuit is an electro-romantic duo formed by Richard Abdeni (composer, producer, author, and vocalist) and Marilyne Jallad, who records as Marilyne B. (vocals and lyrics). Before this project, Abdeni was part of Les Anges De La Nuit, an American electro-darkwave duo he founded with Anthony Stuart in 2003 that released work through Infacted Recordings.
The duo’s debut album, “Are You Ready For Love”, appeared in 2022. “Aller-Retour”, their second album, was released on October 10, 2025 through Echozone and collects 13 tracks of danceable, melancholic electro-wave.
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