[Cover photo of Camille Deléan, credit to Nathalie Deléan]
Toronto-born, Montréal-based songwriter and vocalist Camille Deléan has announced her new album Human Error, due for release February 5th, 2027 via her own New Habitat Songs imprint. The announcement has been accompanied by the release of lead single “In Gardens” which comes with a visualizer.
According to Camille Deléan:
‘In Gardens’ was the problem child. It could be taken in any direction, and so it was—I’ve lost count of how many versions exist. It is both a ballad and a dance track. What appears on the album incorporates our favourite elements from all of them, which locked together at the last moment to complete the puzzle.
Deléan released two albums, 2017’s Music on the Grey Mile and 2020’s Cold House Burning, before pausing nearly all public performances and releases for the next six years. In parallel with her work in Stone Bonnet Choir, a new six-piece vocal ensemble, a third album of Deléan’s own was gradually taking shape.
The resulting LP, Human Error, begins where Cold House Burning left off, but also veers sharply into more unpredictable musical territory. Notably, the album features Deléan’s first composition in French (her first language), “Chant des chutes”.
The songs on the album “orbit the central theme of vertigo: a fragile universe of shifting perspectives, disorientation and instability—of teetering on the edge of a great void.”
The process of creating the album in a very real sense mirrored the theme. The songs were presented to co-Producers Josh Rosati Daignault (Andy Shauf, U.S. Girls, Badge Époque Ensemble) and Olivier Fairfield (FET.NAT, Album), and then taking a direct route from there to finished project was “upended.”
A long period of exploration followed, as arrangements were “broken into component parts, reconfigured and reassembled.” As the artist says, the songs were “mutating out of our hands.”
The final result was sculpted by this period of invention and by an expanded pool of contributors, including Chris Bezant, Philippe Melanson, Daniel Pencer, Adèle Trottier-Rivard, Philippe Charbonneau and Nina Reggi, with mixing by Chris Cohen.
The album closes with “Moon Disaster”, a live take captured on the very first night the musicians met in the studio, where “the Pop song format finally falls apart to re-emerge in ghost-like fragments.”
