Queues, the new album from Belgian artist Dida, is years in the making. It’s a patchworked play on the luxuries and traps of reference, faith in the afterlife of musical ideas, the stretched valences of pop, a dunce’s tale.

As a title, Queues toys with translations between French and English. Though himself Flemish, Dida came to the title upon realizing that each of the album’s 7 tracks ended in some degree of a queue, the word for tail in French. The irony that a queue also amounts to, depending on context, the word for dick, line, or, aptly, a succession of songs or arrangements is not lost on him. Instead, it deepens its resonance to this arch collection of songs and ideas initially conceived as a concept album, at the heart of which is a hero, a quixotic DJ, collapsing time and form in the wooing of an unrequited love. Across the record, a love letter spins on a dime, breathless, breezy, and wide-eyed.

All pieces assembled displaced and reconciled by dennis vanderauwera
Additional voices supplied by Quinten Struyven and James de Graef
Words and voice entrusted to Quinten Struyven on Make Things Right
Acoustic Guitar introduced by Jorick Hens on Endo

Mixed by Roman Hiele, who clarified certain situations
Mastered by Jack Callahan, who ensured their continued survival