Sylvie Kreusch tonight – recorded at the 2025 Lowlands Festival by VPRO in The Netherlands.
A mashup of Fashion and Sonority with Sylvie Kreusch giving a stellar performance at last years Lowlands Festival. The Belgian singer/songwriter has been grabbing much attention all over Europe since 2024, and from the sounds of it, there appears to be no letup in the future.
An excerpt from an article that appeared in the November 2025 issue of the wildly informative Line Of Best Fit and a top-notch article from Steven Loftin filling you in, if you don’t already know:
Having started her musical career at 16 with some friends, the Antwerp-boorn Kreusch eventually moved on from this venture into her first group proper, Warhaus. Her solo career started shortly after this in 2018. With a string of singles and some compositional music for fashion brands, Montbray came in 2021, followed-by Comic Trip last year, both on Sony Music. These two sides of the Kreusch coin reflect her growth personally and musically across the natural voyage of ageing.
“If I didn’t have all the chaotic side of my job, I would feel a bit empty,” she muses fondly. The same could be said of her approach to her output. With two albums, each differing in style, with Montbray delving into the crushing grip of heartbreak, while Comic Trip – and its recent deluxe addition – explored markedly happier and buoyant sounds and flirty territories akin to the likes of the B-52’s.
This evolution came with a moment of clarity. “I think that was the first time that I realised that I got happy from just really small things in life,” she says. “Because I achieved some success with my music, I realised it’s not the success that makes me happy. It’s the small things in life, and that inspired me to write about small things in life that make you happy.”
Continuing, she explains, “You get quieter, and you’re not always searching for the highs in your life to have the big lows,” she says. Having reached her mid-30s, she’s experiencing the all too common change that inevitably happens as you reach this point: “I think it’s not wanting to go out anymore every weekend and being happy with yourself and connecting with nature.
For Kreusch, growing older and the rich experiences that have tagged along have aided her belief in, well, belief. Stemming prominently from previously losing two very young friends within the space of six months, “When something happens like that, you need to believe in something beyond,” she sagely says. It’s the same principles she’s applying to a world that seems on a never-ending, fractious path. “How can there be so much evil in the world? We need to believe in something, because otherwise…” she trails off. It was LUX, Rosalia’s recently critically-lauded, spiritual album, that brought Kreusch back around, with a better understanding of how it can tie into music. “I really love the fact that she’s such a big star…it gives us even more courage to do whatever the fuck we want to do, with everything becoming so commercial and so AI-generated.”
That’s the crux of the Kreusch before me today. She’s emboldened by her own journey traversing the dualities of life, from heartbreak to happiness, her quiet Belgian home with her dog, to a festival filled with people, and has in turn created a fierce stage presence, one with the creative spark to follow – and oppose – her every whim. “We shouldn’t be scared to be bold in our decisions in terms of creating,” she ends.
That’s a sample – I would head over to Line Of Best Fit and read the rest of the article as well as bookmarking them and referring to them often. Good music/Pop Culture publications are not all that common these days, especially intelligent and well written ones. Line of Best Fit is one of the best.
Okay – now press Play and dive in for a sample of Sylvie Kreusch.
