The French duo of Maxime Dangles and Tommy Rizzitelli are making their debut in 2026 with a conceptual art science electronic album titled Sonars. The album’s ten tracks and concept evolved from conversations with ecologists in the field across Canada and France, with emphasis on climate research. Dangles and Rizzitelli were compelled by the emotional response from the scientists about their research, including discussions with Laurent Chauvaud, the research director for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The focus for Maxime Dangles & Tommy Rizzitelli Sonars album became clear from those discussions to not only portray the atmospheric environments in sonic form on the album, but also to portray the sentiment the environments provoke.
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Bringing the Sonars album to life included collaborations by writer and vocalist Aur on the track Reef, poet and rapper Oxmo Puccino on the track Continent Plastique, and former Archive vocalist Craig Walker, who appears on the tracks Bug and Delusion. Throughout Sonars, the climate and terrains visited are imitated by motion-filled synths accompanied by dark atmospheric ambience and solid drum set grooves.
“‘Delusion’ is looking inward and within for peace. ‘Bug’ was searching for it externally by identifying the true enemies of humanity… ‘Delusion’ resolves in the belief that humans are motivated by love and through love we can unite outside of our tailor-made algorithmic systems built to divide us.” says Craig Walker.
The emotional evolution of the album is strongly displayed between the two tracks that feature the vocals of Craig Walker in Bug and Delusion. Bug appears in the first half of the album and portrays the human instinct to want to remove those causing chaos, which in this case is climate change. The album’s final track Delusion takes on more of an optimistic attitude of mankind’s love for the planet and each other being the force to right the world.
“Since ‘Delusion’ is the closing track of the album, we absolutely did not want to end on a dark note. Through its harmonies, it carries a brighter and more positive message than ‘Bug’. The idea was to translate this hope, this necessity to remove the blinders we build for ourselves in order to move forward.”
The environments portrayed in the Maxime Dangles & Tommy Rizzitelli Sonars album are just as impressive as the emotions it invokes. Throughout the ten-track journey, the listener will tour different areas and climates.
The opening track, Rimouski, named after the city in Quebec, portrays the city’s wooded river valley terrain by using a valley-to-peak composition style for the track. Other terrain depicted in Sonars includes frozen arctic seas, like in the track Iceberg where a stomping and repeating synth bass line evokes the movement of a powerful icebreaker making its way through dense ice. The track Sternic will send you out into a stormy and lonesome sea where the wind ambience is so powerful that it will give you goosebumps. It is the trifecta of the album’s message, emotional response, and terrain and climates portrayed by Dangles, Rizzitelli, and all guests in Sonars that make it so compelling for those listeners who flock to the art science electronic music scene. We have it ranked amongst the best for 2026 in its category.
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