Camille Deléan details first new album in six years, Human Error

Human Error follows Deléan's previous two records, 2017's Music on the Grey Mile and 2020's Cold House Burning, marking a return after she paused nearly all public performances and releases for six years. "In Gardens" offers the first glimpse of the new work, which broadens her introspective folk-rock sound.

"'In Gardens' was the problem child," Deléan says. "It could be taken in any direction, and so it was—I've lost count of how many versions exist. It is both a ballad and a dance track. What appears on the album incorporates our favourite elements from all of them, which locked together at the last moment to complete the puzzle."

Coinciding with her work in Stone Bonnet Choir, a new six-piece vocal ensemble, the bones of Human Error started to come together. The album continues where Cold House Burning left off, but shifts into more unpredictable musical territory with a freer approach to arrangement. The album also features Deléan's first composition in French, her first language, "Chant des chutes"

The album centres around the theme of vertigo — a fragile universe of shifting perspectives, disorientation and instability, and the experience of being at the edge of a void — which is reflected in the process of creating the album.

Deléan brought the songs to co-producers Josh Rosati Daignault and Olivier Fairfield, which prompted a long period of exploration as arrangements were broken into parts and reassembled. The compositions, as Deléan notes, were "mutating out of our hands." The final result was also shaped by a cast of contributors, including Chris Bezant, Philippe Melanson, Daniel Pencer and Adèle Trottier-Rivard, with mixing by Chris Cohen.

Human Error artwork

Human Error tracklist

"New Reason For Exile"
"See Spirals"
"My Lucid Dream"
"Long Night of Vertigo"
"In Gardens"
"Acrobat"
"Your Safe Return"
"Telephone Game"
"Chant des chutes"
"Moon Disaster"