TSAR B

The Belgian artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Tsar B (Justine Bourgeus) rearranges the DNA of pop, classical-baroque, and club beats into a rush of life at a breakneck velocity, teeming with astonishment, devotion and curiosity. Throughout her career, Bourgeus has bridged her work into visual mediums such as film, dance and fashion. In the wake of EP (2016), her debut LP The Games I Play, the 2020 EP Unpaintable and to the stars (2023), Bourgeus polished off high-profile collaborations with the likes of Alexander Chung, Oscar and The Wolf and Nova Twins. During the pandemic Tsar B inhabited one of Salvador Dalí’s legendary cookbooks for the stunning concert film Les Diners de Gala. Over the past few years, Bourgeus emerged as a sought-after film composer and producer, while continuing her impressive individual output. Her forthcoming third album The Writer is released on January 30 2026.

To forgo any mincing of words: Tsar B’s forthcoming third LP The Writer, out January 30 2026, is about being madly in love during the dark ages. Over 11 tracks, the Belgian composer, songwriter and producer casts a tale both courageous and cautionary: the deeper you love, the heavier the despair of the world at large weighs you down. Nevertheless, Justine Bourgeus’s body of work always finds playful reprieve within these grandiose, charged sentiments. The Writer’s acclaimed predecessor to the stars marked Tsar B’s space voyage of becoming and unburdening through the prism of her peerless fusion of electronic music, neoclassical, and pop. The Writer finds Bourgeus plummeting back down to more earthbound, ancient sceneries. She loosely based the album on the autobiographical story of her falling deeply in love with a writer’s words – she ends up consumed by her feelings, trying to distinguish the difference between love and the act of crushing. Until she meets him, prompting an exchange of letters – a book for an album, the latter eventually becoming The Writer.