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Born in 1993 in Strasbourg, David Marcelet — known as SANDRE — crafts a sensual and introspective form of coldwave, echoing the legacy of Depeche Mode, The Cure and Lebanon Hanover. His minimalist synths, dry drum machines and detached low voice explore desire, masculinity and homoerotic tension in a direct, contemporary way. Hier doesn’t chase nostalgia — he uses it as raw material to build a world that’s intimate, confrontational and unmistakably modern.
THE ALBUM
With Lumière club, SANDRE delivers a record both carnal and spectral, where electronic coldness becomes the surface of an inner burn. Born from the body, from longing and the vertigo of desire, the album confronts queer sexuality, addiction, and the fluidity of identity through a contemporary, sensual form of coldwave. Darkness here is never decoration — it’s a mirror. It reflects the tension between inherited shame and the act of becoming. The machines breathe, the skin speaks, and light cuts through the fog with quiet precision.
Each track follows SANDRE’s emotional trajectory: awakening desire (Encore un peu), falling into addiction (Extase Mineur), melancholic euphoria (Ton Église Vide), brutal intimacy and body surrender (Soft Damage), desire turned into rhythm (Lumière Club), childhood ghosts (L’Enfant de Horde), and finally, rebirth (Je veux être flamme). The closing duet, Divine Fracture featuring Striga, seals the journey — a dialogue between feminine and masculine forces, between shadow and release, where opposites collapse into harmony. Flamme burns without consuming. It’s a sensual, lucid record about contact, vulnerability, and the quiet fire that refuses to die.
Born in 1993 in Strasbourg, David Marcelet — known as SANDRE — crafts a sensual and introspective form of coldwave, echoing the legacy of Depeche Mode, The Cure and Lebanon Hanover. His minimalist synths, dry drum machines and detached low voice explore desire, masculinity and homoerotic tension in a direct, contemporary way. Hier doesn’t chase nostalgia — he uses it as raw material to build a world that’s intimate, confrontational and unmistakably modern.
THE ALBUM
With Lumière club, SANDRE delivers a record both carnal and spectral, where electronic coldness becomes the surface of an inner burn. Born from the body, from longing and the vertigo of desire, the album confronts queer sexuality, addiction, and the fluidity of identity through a contemporary, sensual form of coldwave. Darkness here is never decoration — it’s a mirror. It reflects the tension between inherited shame and the act of becoming. The machines breathe, the skin speaks, and light cuts through the fog with quiet precision.
Each track follows SANDRE’s emotional trajectory: awakening desire (Encore un peu), falling into addiction (Extase Mineur), melancholic euphoria (Ton Église Vide), brutal intimacy and body surrender (Soft Damage), desire turned into rhythm (Lumière Club), childhood ghosts (L’Enfant de Horde), and finally, rebirth (Je veux être flamme). The closing duet, Divine Fracture featuring Striga, seals the journey — a dialogue between feminine and masculine forces, between shadow and release, where opposites collapse into harmony. Flamme burns without consuming. It’s a sensual, lucid record about contact, vulnerability, and the quiet fire that refuses to die.