In 2021, Coraline Gaye released her first EP, fin:début, under the name Brèche de Roland. Released on the dear.deer.records label, the album was produced in collaboration with Brussels-based musicians Gil Morio, Fab Detry, Simon Bériaux, and Nicolas Arnoud. It features impressionistic pop with Anglo-Saxon sounds, already marked by precise songwriting and a unique, immediately recognizable voice.

In February 2026, Coraline Gaye signed with Humpty Dumpty Records under her own name for La couverture des choses, an album of French songs that straddle the line between classic and strange, between gentleness and violence. While the accuracy of the words and the clarity of the voice remain central, the naturalistic themes of the EP open up here to relationships: with oneself, with others, with children, with war, with the landscape, with the collective, with resistance, with love.

The eleven tracks on the album were written and composed by Coraline Gaye, then co-produced with musician Thomas Van Cottom (Cabane). Claire Vailler (Midget!, Transbluency) provides backing vocals and plays the organ and baritone guitar; Sacha Toorop (Dominique A, Emily Loizeau…) plays bass and drums; Nicolas Arnould composed the guitar arrangements on several tracks. Finally, English musician Mike Lindsay (Tuung, LUMP…) brought these songs together under one musical roof, thanks to a creative mix tinged with vintage textures and drum machines.

With La couverture des choses, Coraline Gaye unveils a collection of delicate songs that explore intimacy while asserting her place as a songwriter in the French-speaking music scene. Her stories unfold in a movement ranging from the infinitely close to the universal. The singer is fully committed, taking action. The lyrics are incisive, the words performative. The music and lyrics convey a poetic sensibility carried by a keen awareness of the world around her. From the forests of the Belgian Ardennes, where she loves to lose herself, she brings back an exploration of everyday life, inner life, social life, and maternal and romantic love. With her clear voice, she finds the strength to say and sing what needs to be said and sung.

Coraline Gaye puts a constantly awakened body and mind into song. This is where she stands: at the porous intersection between the intimate and the political. She lifts the veil, looks at what lies beneath, dispels pretense, and recounts what she sees.

The album is also an opportunity to bring to fruition or continue collaborations with video artists Anne-Laure Étienne and Simon Vanrie, visual artist Séverine Gallardo, and illustrators Marine Schneider, Mathilde Van Gheluwe, and Gaya Wisniewski.

Conceived in collaboration with Claire Vailler, the live show offers a four-handed reinterpretation of the album’s tracks, combining keyboards, guitar, vocals, and samplers. The concert extends beyond the music with video interludes, suspended moments where the lyrics leave the song to become spoken word.