Hooverphonic — Looking For Stars (2018)
Release Date: 16 November 2018
Artist: Hooverphonic
Label: Universal Music Belgium
Genre: Pop / Electronic / Dream pop
Studio Album: Tenth studio album by Belgian group Hooverphonic.
Looking For Stars is notable as the **first and only Hooverphonic album featuring singer Luka Cruysberghs, who joined the band after winning The Voice Vlaanderen. Her vocals define the album’s sound and helped steer the band’s evolving pop-oriented direction in the late 2010s.
Tracklist
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Lethal Skies
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Paranoid Affair
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Romantic
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Uptight
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Concrete Skin
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Looking For Stars
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Horrible Person
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On and On
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Feathers and Tar
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Sleepless
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Long Time Gone
Singles
Several songs were released as singles, including:
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“Romantic”
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“Uptight”
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“Looking For Stars”
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“Horrible Person”
Album Credits
Hooverphonic
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Luka Cruysberghs – lead vocals (this album only)
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Alex Callier – programming, arrangements, production
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Raymond Geerts – guitars
Session musicians and additional programming are featured across tracks to create the lush, atmospheric pop sound that blends electronic and organic elements. (based on typical album production patterns)
Reception & Performance
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Looking For Stars entered the Ultratop Albums charts and achieved Gold certification in Belgium, reflecting strong regional performance.
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The record runs about 37 minutes and showcases a tight, melodic collection of pop-infused tracks that blend Hooverphonic’s cinematic roots with radio-friendly songwriting.
Cover Art Description
The album cover typically features stylized, moody imagery that evokes the album title — a sense of searching or nighttime ambience. It blends cosmic, surreal graphic elements with the band’s logo and title set in sleek typography, visually suggesting the themes of aspiration and reflection found in the music. (Description based on official packaging imagery.)
Fun Facts & Trivia
🎤 One-Time Vocal Era: Looking For Stars is the only Hooverphonic album with Luka Cruysberghs as lead singer before the band later returned to featuring Geike Arnaert.
🌟 Career Milestone: Luka was selected as vocalist after winning The Voice Vlaanderen, and she recorded this album while still under 20 years old, making it a youthful new chapter in Hooverphonic’s long career.
🎶 Pop-Forward Sound: Compared with some earlier cinematic and trip-hop work, this album leans more toward bright pop rhythms and hooks, showing how Hooverphonic adapted to modern musical contexts.
✨ Title Track Theme: The title “Looking For Stars” suggests the band’s ambition and exploration of melodic pop landscapes, bridging dreamlike sonic spaces with lyrical wanderings.
Did You Know?
👉 Hooverphonic were slated to represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with a song from this era (“Release Me”), but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic — and the band later replaced Luka with returning singer Geike Arnaert.
