Listen to Amelie Lens' debut album, 'AURA'

Lens says she wanted the album to feel "emotional but still powerful, uplifting but raw.

Amelie Lens has released her debut album, 'AURA', via her own label, EXHALE.

The 11-track album features high-energy, stadium-sized cuts that draw on acid and hard techno. Recent singles 'whatever you do', 'our frequency' and 'run' with Angèle, who is the only featured artist on the record, all appear across the tracklist.

In a statement about the new album, Lens said: "'AURA' is my story. Aura is about the connection between the crowd and me. Music has always been my escape, my way of turning my emotions and energy into something new.

When I was younger, I would disappear into nightclubs and create my own world in my head. Being in the nightclubs gave me this feeling of belonging somewhere. I felt connection and freedom I had never experienced before.

That feeling changed my life completely. So this album really reflects that whole journey. From playing tiny local clubs and driving myself through the night for gigs, to standing on huge festival stages, becoming a mother, building EXHALE and learning how to balance it all in life.

She continued: "I wanted 'AURA' to feel emotional but still powerful, uplifting but raw. From big festival tracks to the trippy tracks I'd play at 4am at [Berlin club] RSO.

Although making this album is one of the biggest things I have ever done in my life, I wanted to keep it light and somehow playful, because that is also how I am as a person.

This is the most honest version of myself I've ever shared. I hope it brings some light, happiness and connection to others as it does to me.

To mark the release of 'AURA', Lens is playing a one-off event in Antwerp, Belgium tomorrow (Saturday, 5th September). She will play a set in front of the city's KSMKA fine arts museum, for a crowd of 14,000 people, while an appearance for Anyma's residency at [UNVRS] Ibiza will follow that this Tuesday (8th September).