On mirador – his fourth album, releasing September 2026 – Blais is poised to deliver an epic, delving into a beneath-the-surface odyssey that spans choirs, strings, and the music of the Andes – running from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and back again to his hometown of tiny Nicolet, Québec. mirador finds the enigmatic Blais opening the listeners’ gaze onto his wide, wondrous, and personal world – an aspirational journey in which he exchanges contemporary minimalism for a light, generous maximalism. Throughout his discography, Blais uses instrumentation and composition as tools of personal expression, subtly revealing layers of his own character – as a queer artist, a perpetual traveller, student, and caregiver – often told through the perspective of his upbringing. Now four albums into his career, Jean-Michel Blais is no longer just charting the map of his grown-up heart: on mirador, he offers a new vantage on childhood—a vivid and vicarious chance to listen anew, gazing ahead into the imaginary.