It is a song apart in Vacance’s journey: J’attends (“I’m waiting”) is the first for which Allison, the trio’s voice, wrote both the music and the lyrics. Its melody bears the mark of the Beatles, whom she has listened to all her life, and it stands out from the rest of Après la pluie (“After the Rain”): where the album draws on early-1980s synthpop, J’attends takes a softer, more melancholy, almost sixties approach.

It all starts with a gaze turned skywards. Allison loves watching the light change and thinking about time passing in the face of the immensely vast. Day keeps rising and setting, indifferent to our small individual paths… and yet we still hope for brighter tomorrows, “like children waiting for Father Christmas”.

Then there is love, which we are always told finds us when we least expect it. “So you have to manage to wait without expecting it!”, Allison smiles, before turning the question around: what do we really expect from love? Often too much, sometimes forgetting to love ourselves. A gentle conclusion to a record which, from the first single Satellite to Ton souvenir or Seuls ensemble, focuses on what remains as time passes: disillusion, habits, attachments that persist despite everything.

Recorded at home, Après la pluie came out on 18 May 2026 on Les Disques Maladroits. Its ten tracks, with enveloping analogue textures, direct melodies and driving rhythms, evoke both the French Jeunes Gens Modernes scene and the early days of Depeche Mode and OMD. J’attends is its closing track.

About the band

Vacance is a synthpop trio from Bordeaux, made up of Allison Treutenaere (vocals), Laurent Billy (keyboards, also pianist in Lokomotiv Sofia) and Michaël Korchia (bass, programming, synths and mixing, also a member of Feutre and Photon). Revealed in 2020 with Nos futurs, released on the Greek label Melotron Recordings, the band crafts a warm yet detached electronic pop rooted in the early 1980s, with simple, direct lyrics where irony shows through without ever being laboured.

Find them here and there:
Video : Satellite
Deezer : Après la pluie
Apple Music : Après la pluie