Imagine standing on a wonky table with 3 legs. You move in any direction and you wobble and fall. Avalanches is about that ever-so-intricate balance between standing up straight and losing your footing. About praying the mountain doesn’t come down on other people if you step in the snow. About wondering why whenever you God damn try something, it always goes awry. Like an opposite King Midas, turning everything you touch into shit. But also finding humor, positive defenselessness and a certain “je m’en fous” in that.
Avalanches is the first glimpse of Elis’ upcoming debut album The House, which will be released on Unday Records. The song was produced by Jo Francken and Pieterjan Maertens, the duo behind Tamino’s critically acclaimed sound, and it shows. The result is lush, layered alt-pop with cinematic flair and disarming intimacy.
Elis Floreen is a Belgian-Dutch singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, arranger, and producer. Originally from the small village of Eksel in Belgian Limburg, she crafts songs like magic-realist paintings: full of symbols, strange logic, and deeply personal reflections. Her musical past includes projects under the names Audri and Marijke Florien, the latter born during her four years in Copenhagen. She was a finalist in Sound Track 2023 and made it to the finals of De Nieuwe Lichting 2024, steadily building a reputation on Belgian stages.
Her influences range from Paul Simon and Caroline Polachek to João Bosco, Thomas Newman, and Susanne Sundfør. But fans of Feist, Aldous Harding, and Cate Le Bon will feel particularly at home in her sound; playful, poetic, and beautifully offbeat.
