Metal
Pelagic Records · 13 November 2026
“Thriving” was the most wholesome title they could think of, singer and guitarist Yves explains in Pelagic Records’ notes: the record was already finished when one of the band played it back in full and said it sounded unhinged and desperate, so they gave it “the kind of word you might see on a corporate motivational poster”. The Lille sludge outfit released it on 13 November. There are eleven tracks, none longer than six minutes, and the opener, “Yellow Is Dead”, is based on a true story: a cat found dead in the neighbourhood.
According to Yves, the record was made almost entirely by the band themselves. Drums were tracked with Frédéric Pecqueur at Studio C&P, as on the previous album; the band recorded everything else, and this time Yves mixed it himself. Brad Boatright at Audiosiege handled mastering. Unlike on earlier records, he says, noise and layers were there from the writing stage, and some songs were built around the vocal parts.
The notes also credit guitarist Jb and Camille on drums. It’s the band’s fourth album, after “Love Sex Machine” (2012), “Asexual Anger” (2016) and “Trve”, which came out on 12 April 2024 and was mixed by Sanford Parker.
Text by Roger Estivill