Théo Le Vigoureux is changing his sound. For a decade, the Normandy producer has built a name as Fakear, a figure of dreamy French electro, playing venues from the Salle Pleyel to international festivals.
With ‘A Nice Place to Be,’ out September 4, 2026, he turns his back on that signature for something rawer, more danceable, and openly personal. The references are no longer ‘world’ but British and current: Fred again.., Four Tet, Bonobo, Sammy Virji.
The record extends an already dense catalogue — ‘All Glows’ (2018), ‘Everything Will Grow Again’ (2020), ‘Talisman’ (2023), ‘Hypertalisman’ (2024) — alongside a companion mixtape, ‘open world,’ inspired by video-game aesthetics.
The move fits a broader trend: a generation of electro producers using the dancefloor as a space for complex emotion without giving up the groove. Fakear is chasing that balance between catharsis and celebration.
On Cameroon’s and Africa’s electro scenes, where hybrids of machines and traditional textures keep multiplying, this kind of pivot — changing sound without disowning one’s own path — is a reference point closely watched by artists seeking their own balance.
This album doesn’t extend Fakear’s dreamy decade — it opens a new one, more danceable and more personal, one the accompanying French tour will test on stage.
