Christine and the Queens has released "Rendez-vous Avec Toi," the first single from an album due next spring. The track arrives with an English counterpart, "Rendez-vous In Your Arms," and a video Chris directed with Raphaël De Albuquerque. Four intimate shows across the UK and Europe follow in December, played with a new band. In his own announcement Chris framed the dates as "a moment of live music, shared together, before the next journey begins."
The single is the first new Christine and the Queens material since 2023's PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE, and it lands after a year spent largely in collaboration: Logic1000, Thee Diane, and others. That run of guest appearances makes a solo return feel like a regrouping, a way of restating the project at full scale. The pairing of French and English versions belongs to the same instinct. Chris has always worked across two languages, and here he gives the song two doors, one for each audience he has built.
His note about the release is unusually specific about its sources. He names New York jazz and Moroder groove, and describes the song as "the new interstellar traveling of Christine and the Queens." That is a useful map for listening: the low end and the pulse should carry a disco lineage, while the arrangement leaves room for the jazz he has been circling. The phrase he returns to is obsession, waiting for a rendezvous since morning, and the record's energy will depend on how cleanly that anticipation is built into the groove.
The December shows are the other half of the announcement. Small rooms, a new band, a set played before the album exists in public. For an artist whose live performances have run on theatrical scale, four underplays read as a deliberate contraction, a chance to test the new material close up. The video sits under the release, directed by Chris himself, which keeps the visual language in his hands as the next era opens.
What to listen for in "Rendez-vous Avec Toi" is the space between the vocal and the bass, and whether the English version shifts the emphasis or simply translates it. Chris calls the electricity "eternally mysterious." The coming months will show how far that mystery travels.
