Teaming up with UK artist bailey, the French duo return with an emotive new single, and announce their long-awaited debut album due for release in February 2027.
Rising French electronic duo Angara release Before We Forget – a new collaboration with London-based singer-songwriter bailey, and the title track from their forthcoming debut album on Embassy One. The release marks the latest chapter in the duo’s evolving creative journey on the Berlin-based label, following Out at Sea and Forgive You, and arrives alongside the announcement that their debut album, Before We Forget, which will be released in February 2027.
Built around a euphoric groove, immersive textures and Angara’s signature melodic sensitivity, Before We Forget brings together the emotional depth that has defined the duo’s music with an increasingly pronounced focus. Atmospheric and introspective, yet driven by a steady sense of propulsion, the track captures a feeling of nostalgia and impermanence while remaining firmly rooted in the rapturous emotion of the club.
Taking its title from the album, the single became the first track Angara knew would form part of the record. Rather than serving as a blueprint for the album, however, it came to represent the emotional starting point from which the wider project would emerge.
Speaking about the single, Angara commented:
"Before We Forget is about the presence of a loved one you never actually met. Someone built entirely from other people's stories, who somehow keeps growing closer instead of fading away. You end up carrying them without ever having known them, naively doing things you hope they'd be proud of. It was the first track we knew would be on the album, not because everything else was written around it, but because it was the feeling we wanted to start with : A chapter about not knowing yet but going anyway."
The single follows Angara’s two previous releases on Embassy One, beginning with Out at Sea featuring Austrian vocalist Ren Ocean in late 2025. The cinematic single introduced a new creative chapter for the duo, exploring themes of first love, freedom and connection through glowing melodic layers and hypnotic percussion.
Earlier this year, Angara followed with Forgive You, a more club-focused cut featuring a vocal sample from Estonian-Swiss vocalist and songwriter Ingrid Lukas. Driven by a forward-pushing groove, the track explored reconciliation, emotional release and the transition from tension to peace, further establishing the balance between introspection and dancefloor momentum that runs through their work.
Now, Before We Forget opens the door to the wider world of Angara’s debut album. Created over the course of three years, the record brings together songs written during markedly different periods of the duo’s lives. Rather than following a linear progression, the album moves between different emotional states: the discovery of identity, its unravelling, and the process of learning to live with what remains.
Speaking about the upcoming album, Angara commented:
“Before We Forget moves between three states: discovering who you are for the first time, watching that unravel, and learning to live with what's left of it. We spent three years on it, and some of these songs were written in very different periods of our lives. That's why those states come back out of order in the album, the way they do in life. The title came last, once we saw that every track was trying to do the same thing: hold onto yourself while everything around you changes.”
For Angara, the album represents the culmination of years spent developing their distinctive approach to electronic music. Since their breakout Rwanda EP on Monstercat Silk in 2021, the French duo have amassed over 70 million streams worldwide and brought their immersive sound to stages across Europe. With Before We Forget, Angara expand that sonic world into their most ambitious project yet: an album about discovering yourself, losing parts of that identity and finding a way to carry them forward. At its heart is the same impulse that drives the title track: to hold onto something meaningful before it disappears, while continuing to move into the unknown.
