Credits:

J. Bernardt

Description:

J. Bernardt, the solo project of Jinte Deprez, frontman of Belgium’s national indie rock band Balthazar, releases his second album in seven years, Contigo. and J. Bernardt, will release his second studio album, Contigo, on Play It Again Sam. Contigo, which means “with you” in Spanish, is a dramatic, compelling, and colorful album. The album is full of drama, and studio virtuoso, musical inventor, and singer Deprez brings it to life with gorgeous melodies, vocals, and production. Contigo explores all stages of a breakup: shock, grief, anger, denial, hurt, and acceptance, and is “viciously romantic” in the process. Deprez, a classically trained violinist, orchestrated all of “Contigo.Singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, arranger, producer, engineer, and programmer, he is in a sense a generalist. Whereas the sound of his last album, Running Days, was shaped by electronics, his new album, Contigo, i