Hugo Leclercq, better known as Madeon, has been a known quantity in the electronic music sphere since his Youtube break through with mashup video ‘Pop Culture’ when he was just 17. Following a rapid climb with several strong house and EDM singles, all of which he mixed, produced and mastered himself, he released debut album ‘Adventure’ in 2015. The album was an incredibly fun selection of bouncy, electropop fun borrowing vocal talents from Bastille, Foster The People and Passion Pit, as well as Leclercq himself singing for the first time on closing track ‘Home’. At the time, he said “I don’t see myself as a singer but I thought it would be weird to have anyone else do the song so I kept it the same as the demo on the album.”

After the releases of his hit ‘Shelter’ with frequent collaborator Porter Robinson in 2016 and follow-up LP ‘Good Faith’ in 2019, Madeon had pushed himself out there as the main vocal star of his own music. The boundary-breaking tracks on ‘Good Faith’ drew influences from across EDM, rap, pop and gospel genres, with Leclercq’s gentle, digitally-enhanced singing voice becoming a huge part of the dreamy sound. The touring cycle from ‘Good Faith’ was long and arduous, and after signing off with 2023 single ‘Gonna Be Good’, Madeon took a gap year from producing his own music.

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Since returning refreshed in 2025 with energetic new electronic-tinged indie rock singles ‘Hi!’ and ‘Car Crash Baby’, Madeon has reinvented himself as a frontman, a singer-songwriter – a genre-melding maverick. He announced third album ‘Victory’ in October last year, also confirming it would be the name of his new era of music and theatrics. With all 10 tracks completed in March, he revealed new single ‘Fire Away’ this week, featuring vocal cuts by US singer Slayyyter.

The song is a stomping dance-floor anthem, which Madeon breaks down as “a song about love as warfare, words like weapons of the brokenhearted.” Speaking of the feature, he says “Slayyyter embodied the other side of the story and her voice took the song to another level, her performance has so much confidence and attitude, she’s electric.” Slayyyter has also spoken of the experience, writing “I’ve been a fan of Madeon for such a long time; I am so grateful to have gotten to work with him on this record. I love what we made together.” The track made its debut live appearance during Madeon’s DJ set at Coachella in April on the Quasar Stage.

‘Fire Away’ is out now, ahead of ‘Victory’ releasing on the 26th of June via independent label Mom+Pop. Click here for pre-save and pre-order links, and check out the track list below:

1. Hi!
2. Car Crash Baby
3. Super Platinum (feat. Erick the Architect)
4. Dancing On Your Grave
5. Somebody Else
6. Fire Away (feat. Slayyyter)
7. Chaos Magic
8. Enjoy
9. Red Jacket (feat. Sam Gellaitry)
10. Lonely Space Age