Angara Announce Debut Album Before We Forget and Share New Single Featuring bailey
The French electronic duo continue exploring memory, identity and personal transformation with a new release on Embassy One. Their debut album arrives February 26, 2027.
French electronic duo Angara have released Before We Forget, a new single featuring London-based singer-songwriter bailey and the title track of their forthcoming debut album. Set for release on February 26, 2027, via Berlin-based label Embassy One, the record represents the culmination of three years of creative development. Bringing together compositions written during different periods of their lives, the album explores memory, identity and the personal transformations that accompany growing older.
Built around a euphoric groove, immersive textures and the melodic sensitivity that has become central to their sound, Before We Forget finds a balance between introspection and dancefloor energy. Bailey’s vocal contribution reinforces the emotional character of the composition, while Angara’s production maintains a steady rhythmic momentum. The result is a track that confronts nostalgia and the impermanence of human experiences without losing its connection to club culture.
For Angara, the single holds particular significance within the album’s creative process. It was the first composition they identified as belonging to the project, not because it established a definitive sonic direction, but because it captured the emotional starting point from which they wanted their story to unfold.
“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 release continues a series of singles that have marked a new chapter for the duo on Embassy One. In late 2025, they shared Out at Sea, a collaboration with Austrian vocalist Ren Ocean that explored first love, freedom and human connection through cinematic production. Earlier this year, they followed with Forgive You, a more club-oriented composition incorporating a vocal sample from Estonian-Swiss singer and songwriter Ingrid Lukas. Across both releases, Angara developed a musical narrative in which personal experiences coexist with structures designed for the dancefloor.
That duality takes on a broader dimension throughout Before We Forget. Developed over three years, the album brings together songs that emerged during markedly different periods of the duo’s lives. Rather than arranging those experiences chronologically, Angara constructed an emotional journey in which discovering one’s identity, watching it unravel and learning to accept what remains become recurring themes.
“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.”
Since releasing their breakthrough Rwanda EP on Monstercat Silk in 2021, Angara have accumulated more than 70 million streams worldwide and brought their music to stages across Europe. Their trajectory has been defined by a melodic approach to electronic music, where expansive atmospheres and rhythmic elements serve as vehicles for emotional expression.
With their debut album, the duo are looking to translate that sensitivity into a full-length format. Rather than simply collecting their recent productions, Before We Forget attempts to document the personal changes that have accompanied their artistic evolution. Memory emerges as a central theme, not only through the experiences we try to preserve, but also through the ways those experiences continue to shape our understanding of the past.
At its core, the album reflects a familiar tension between holding onto what matters and accepting that change is inevitable. For Angara, the process of looking back becomes inseparable from the uncertainty of moving forward.
