Christine and the Queens releases 'Rendez-vous avec toi', first single from new album

Christine and the Queens has released “Rendez-vous avec toi” (“Rendez-vous in your arms”), the first music from a new album due next spring. The record has not yet been formally announced.

The single lands shortly before a run of small-scale European dates, among them a show at London's Scala on 7 December. All four concerts on the itinerary are sold out.

A video made in Paris

The song comes with a video shot in Paris. Christine and the Queens co-directed it with Raphaël De Albuquerque, and the choreography is by Alexander Ekman.

The song deals with desire and tenderness. Chris describes its starting point as the “devotion of someone who only waits for you, and the meaning you give to life itself by your mere presence”. He also called the release “the new interstellar traveling of Christine and the Queens”.

The December dates

The shows begin at Botanique in Brussels on 1 December. London's Scala follows on 7 December, then Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam on 8 December. The run ends at the Alhambra in Paris on 10 December.

A full band will play: the two Vincents, Taeger and Taurelle, plus Adrian Edeline and Karl Onibuje. The sets will mix songs from the existing catalogue with new material.

“The shows with my audience are the highlights of my life. We will revisit a repertoire that made us grow together, and give a first listen to unreleased songs from the next album.”

That means audiences in all four cities will hear tracks from the forthcoming record before it is released, with “Rendez-vous avec toi” as the only part of it already public. The Line of Best Fit carried the details of the single and the tour dates.