V2 records news – Placebo announces new album,‘Placebo re:created’

Announces New Album/Single "Placebo Re:created"
ALBUM OUT 19 JUNE
SINGLE "BRUISE PRISTINE (RE:CREATED VERSION" IS OUT
1 November live @ AFAS DOME
Bruise Pristine (RE:CREATED VERSION)
Celebrating three decades since the release of their groundbreaking debut album, legendary alternative rock band Placebo announce Placebo RE:CREATED, a powerful new reworking of the record that first introduced them to the world in 1996. The album will be released on 19 June 2026 via Elevator Lady Ltd through AWAL.

Originally arriving at the height of the Britpop era, Placebo stood in stark contrast to the prevailing cultural mood. While much of British guitar music at the time leaned into laddish nostalgia and national identity, Placebo's debut delivered something altogether more provocative and confrontational. Its songs addressed sexuality, androgyny, addiction and alienation with an honesty rarely heard in mainstream rock at the time, establishing the band as one of the most distinctive voices of their generation.

Thirty years on, Placebo RE:CREATED sees the band return to this pivotal album with a fresh perspective. The new record features reworked and embellished versions of all ten tracks from the original album plus two bonus tracks from the original release, capturing the way these songs have evolved across decades of performance while retaining the raw spirit that defined them. Among the tracks are the era-defining singles "Nancy Boy" and "36 Degrees", songs that helped establish Placebo's reputation for fearless lyricism and genre-defying sound. These new recordings amplify the urgency and attitude that made the originals resonate so strongly, while reflecting the band's growth and experience in the years since their debut.

Speaking about the new record, Placebo explain:
"We think of this record as a director's cut. We haven't recreated it from scratch. We went back to the original master tapes and brought 30 years of playing these songs live back into the record.

This project was about finally finishing the record, dragging it into the 21st century sonically, while preserving the integrity and the spirit of the original. It's not about improving it, there's nothing wrong with it, it's about completing it.

When we made the first album, we didn't yet have the experience or the studio knowledge to fully translate what was in our heads. Over the years, the songs took on a life of their own on stage; they grew, they developed, they kind of completed themselves.

It's a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then and who we are now. A way of honoring that innocence, while letting the songs exist with the scale, confidence, and energy of the band we've become."

When Placebo first appeared in 1996, the band's aesthetic and lyrical perspective challenged expectations within British rock culture. Their visual identity - deliberately ambiguous, glamorous and confrontational - pushed against traditional ideas of gender and masculinity at a time when such conversations rarely entered mainstream discourse. In doing so, Placebo carved out a space for a different kind of alternative voice, one that resonated deeply with audiences who felt outside the cultural mainstream and is still referenced to this day by many of their contemporaries.

Now, discussions around identity, gender expression and individuality are more visible - and often more contested - than ever. Against this backdrop, the origins of Placebo's debut feel strikingly relevant again. Placebo RE:CREATED not only celebrates the legacy of the original album, but also highlights its enduring cultural significance, reaffirming how forward-thinking the record was upon its release.

The album was recreated by Brian Molko and Rob Kirwan from the original master tapes and mixed by Adam Noble. The result is a collection that preserves the immediacy and defiance of the original while pushing the sound into new territory - reflecting both the band's long history with these songs and their continued creative evolution.

Later this year Placebo will embark on an extensive UK and European arena tour to celebrate this momentous anniversary. The band will be performing songs from their first two albums, Placebo and Without You I'm Nothing - some of which have not been performed live for over 20 years! The tour kicks off in Portugal before heading across Europe and ending in the UK, seeing them perform to hundreds of thousands of fans across 36 dates. Later this month Placebo will , at the invitation of The Cure's Robert Smith, take to the stage alongside their good friends 'Garbage' for the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series at the legendary Royal Albert Hall. The annual series has long been one of the UK's most respected charity music events, bringing together major artists to raise funds for young people facing cancer.

PLACEBO RE:CREATED TRACKLISTING
Come Home

Teenage Angst

Bionic

36 Degrees

Hang On To Your IQ

Nancy Boy

I Know

Bruise Pristine

Lady of the Flowers

Swallow

Drowning By Numbers

H.K. Farewell

PLACEBO 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR:

9th oct - Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal

1st nov  - Antwerp, Belgium - Afas Dome

Magasin 4, Brussel - events

PROGRAM
01/04  HABAK (MX) + DAGGERS (BE) + PESTICIDE (BE)
03/04    PUTAN CLUB (FR) + BEASTS (BE) + MISS TETANOS (BE)
04/04  WORLD PEACE (US) + CITRUS (FR) + TRADING HANDS (UK) + DAYS OF DESOLATION (BE)
07/04    APES (CA) + DON'T TRY (CA) + PERP WALK (UK)
10/04  PRIMITIVE MAN (US) + KOLLAPS (AU) + IFFERNET (FR)
14/04 Rakta (BR)
15/04  UNSANE (US), Suplecs (Us)
16/04  SLOWHOLE (US) + MOLOCH (UK), The Shits (Uk)
17/04    DÄLEK (US), Cchhrriissttoodd (Be) , Iva Bedlam (Be)
21/04    REVEREND BEAT-MAN & MILAN SLICK (US) + JENKINSES (BE)
25/04  UNDERGANG + WARP CHAMBER + CORPUS OFFAL + CARDIAC ARREST + DEGRAVED + CADAVERIC INCUBATOR
26/04  A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) + KONTRAVOID (US)
28/04 Vastum (Us), Morbific (Fi)
30/04    ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE (JP) + VÍZ (HU) + DRUUGG (BE)
01/05  HYPER GAL (JP)
05/05    MAI MAI MAI (IT) 06/05  DEN DER HALE (SE)
07/05 Bad Breeding (Uk), Klonns (Jp), Zenocide (Jp)
13/05 Pharmakon (Us)
14/05  GANSER (US), Sala Bestia, Ohio Mark (Be)
15/05    SMOTE (UK)
19/05    DEAF CLUB (US) + LINTWORM (BE) + WILLEMS-PUYPE (BE)
20/05 Hedvig Mollestad Trio (No)
21/05 Galvanizer (Fi) , Malformed (Fi)
23/05 Mad caddies (Us), The Happys (Us), Skarbone 14 (Be), Summerintibet (Be)
26/05    ANGINE DE POITRINE (CA)           23/05  MAD CADDIES (US)
28/05 Pneu (Fr), Usa Nails (Uk), AAA Gripper (Uk)
29/05 Le Prince Harry release party (Be), Autumns (Ie), Milk me (De)
03/06    PILORI (FR) + DRUDGE (BE) + WORKS OF THE FLESH (BE)
05/06  GRAVEKVLT (FR)
19/06 Massacrés Belges Vol III
24/06  EYEHATEGOD (US), Raw peace (Be)
10/10 Dazzling Killmen (Us)

All infos :
http://www.magasin4.be/

Even voorstellen – Lambrini Girls – new single ‘cult of celebrity’
LAMBRINI GIRLS SHARE NEW SINGLE “CULT OF CELEBRITY”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DAuSNXBgoM&list=PLLCTjE55htoHg_-hkn0tKfuAXHqeVh8rn&index=2

LIVE 21/8 - Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop

Lambrini Girls by Jessie Morgan
‘The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters’
Antonio Gramsci (courtesy of Lambrini Girls)
“Cult of Celebrity”

Brighton’s own Lambrini Girls, the explosive duo of Phoebe Lunny (vocals/guitar) and Selin Macieira (bass), share their new single “Cult of Celebrity.” From its opening guitar lick, the duo’s new song is a relentless, thrashing indictment of the dark underbelly and backdoor dealings of the world’s global elites that has been exposed in recent years. Speaking about their new single, the Lambrini Girls had this to say:
“The age old tale, of selling your soul to the devil has been fabled accounts of high society for years. However due to recent events come to light- it turns out that the elite are very much actually, the devil incarnate, baby eating, pedos. What a fucking surprise! They had no souls to sell in the first place.”
From the desk of Lambrini Girls

The single is also accompanied by a music video directed by London-based filmmaker and director Harv Frost (The Last Dinner Party, Laufey).

Renowned as one of the best live bands to come out of the UK in recent memory, Lambrini Girls will be taking their spectacular live show on the road throughout the US and Europe this year. Beginning with a series of headline North American live dates including a show at Brooklyn’s Warsaw, the band will play festivals across the Northern Hemisphere this Summer including Bonnaroo, a Warped Tour stop in DC, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound, Gothenburg’s Way Out West and more.

Lambrini Girls breached the door to global rock consciousness with the raw charisma, barbed humor and combustible shredding of their debut album Who Let The Dogs Out in 2025. Released as an opening musical statement for the year in January last year, the album permeated throughout the rock world, with the band gracing the covers of NOTION, Kerrang!, Paste, and New Noise, with support from the likes of Variety and Pitchfork, who noted the album “rails against misogyny, homophobia… with righteous fury.” They’ve heaped praise and admiration from the likes of Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, Iggy Pop and Sleater Kinney, and shared stages with IDLES, Amyl & The Sniffers & more.

Detest the “Cult of Celebrity” and check out the single & video above, plus, catch one of the Lambrini Girls live shows at your own risk.

Even voorstellen – SLIFT – announces new album ‘fantasia’

French Band SLIFT Announces New Album Fantasia, June 5th, 2026
(Sub Pop/Konkurrent)

“A Storm Of Wings” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScfFYQri_RA  

The exhilarating French heavy psychedelic rock band SLIFT is returning with Fantasia, their new album, available Friday, June 5th, 2026 worldwide from Sub Pop. The longplayer was produced by the band at Daft Studios in Brussels, Belgium, mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Vrtkl Audio in Stockholm, Sweden. Fantasia features the highlights “The Day of Execution,” the title track, and  offering, the soaring “A Storm of Wings”

More on SLIFT’s Fantasia:
In the technical sense, every previous album by the radiant and heavy French trio SLIFT has been a fantasia—a composite of genres and forms that allowed the band to improvise, to jam on themes until they seemed to spiral together into space. Their acclaimed third album, 2024’s Ilion, was a sci-fi story built with 10- to 13-minute exploratory escapades, often starting with doom metal or stoner rock before spinning freely into glorious instrumental oblivion. But, in a bit of intentional irony, SLIFT’s fourth album is actually called Fantasia. It’s their leanest and most direct record to date; taken together, its eight songs clock in at less than 50 minutes. It is also their most riveting album yet, a pointed saga about overcoming international upheaval delivered by a band bearing down, not wasting a single second in the process.
They wanted to write and render songs that recognized the turmoil of these days and to sing of a more hopeful vision, of a time when a reckoning arrives. SLIFT didn’t want to lose the message by playing too much. To wit, the longest song on Fantasia is the opening title track, a nine-minute preamble in which Jean Fossat screams of his desires for the world: rising above our pain, burying our dread, and finding, individually and collectively, “a fire for your soul.” The songs that follow aren’t lacking the complexity or intensity that have made SLIFT a rising, radical star in heavy music; it’s simply that they’ve found new ways to weave the complexities of their past inside every piece, like a tapestry that reveals a new layer every time you look. In doing so, they offer an affirming and urgent message: Together, we can still change the times in which we live.
Though only Jean and bassist Rémi Fossat are related, SLIFT is essentially a band of brothers. They’ve been friends with drummer Canek Flores since high school, and 2026 marks a decade together in this trio. They rehearse with religious regularity in a basement in the countryside near Toulouse, inside the jam room where they’ve long indulged their propensity for longform wonder. But they built the songs of Fantasia differently. Jean started many of the songs by himself, then quickly brought them to basement rehearsals with a clear and concise idea of how he imagined them taking shape. At first, SLIFT struggled to keep the songs tight, old habits making them wonder if this song or that one shouldn’t break the double-digit threshold. By the time they crossed France’s northern border into Belgium to record in the enormous live room at Daft Studios, though, the songs were lean, agile, and punchy. They made most of them in a single take.

As Jean Fossat wrote the core of Fantasia, he thought a lot about Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian author whose fiction deftly wove elements of magic and surreality into places and plots that almost felt real. He wanted to accomplish the same thing, to add supernatural touches to his contemplations of politics so that the listener might see reality differently, might question what they were missing about this plane. SLIFT even borrowed the song title “Orbis Tertius” from a 1940 Borges short story that uses the idea of subjective idealism—that is, believing the world only exists as far as our minds go—to ask questions of memory, history, possibility, and, ultimately, control. Fantasia, then, is an imagined town plagued by a sense of unknowing and xenophobia, of trying to eliminate anything that disrupts the accepted order.

The town first comes into focus on “Corrupted Sky,” where lurid keyboards and a relentless rhythm section illustrate a city of power-hungry wastrels. Jean’s guitar solo feels like an exhilarating chase sequence in a video game, as he tries to dodge doom while arriving in Fantasia. They treat the newcomer like poison incarnate during the prog gem “The Village,” while he predicts their downfall during “A Storm of Wings.” In a mighty, fists-up anthem that suggests Clutch getting wild, SLIFT alludes to John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov to portend the arrival of some great liberating force, some redemptive truth.

That slowly starts to emerge during the record’s back half, as memory returns to the masses, as people start to remember that they are more than the oppressive uniformity of their society. “Waiting Man”—a psychedelic ballad that suggests Pink Floyd wandering into the Master of Reality sessions—is the breaking point. The narrator realizes that the world he’s committed to is a lie. “I waited for love, waited my time,” Jean Fossat sings, his voice more vulnerable than it’s ever been. “Waited the seasons of my life.” He knows he must find his own way out of this mess and into something better, so long as it’s not too late.

It is dreadfully easy these days to feel powerless. We have instant access to a world of news, and so much of it is so very heavy. SLIFT reckons directly with the modern onslaught of cruelty and absurdity on Fantasia, whether that’s not caring about our home planet or one another. But these eight songs are about trusting in some hidden power for fighting back, for believing in a world where something we cannot yet articulate or define offers not just a way to disrupt the status quo but perhaps to destroy it completely. SLIFT is loud, heavy, and aggressive inside these anthems. They’re preparing for a battle they think we can still win.

What People Have Said About SLIFT:
“Crosshatching space rock to stoner metal, Krautrock to black metal, the void to the arduous resurrection, their musical scope is broad enough to at least approach that end-times question: Where can we go when what we have is gone?” ‘Album Of The Day,’ Bandcamp

“Exhilaratingly expansive music balanced by a sense of darkness and foreboding, traveling simultaneously into outer space and inner turmoil. SLIFT’s expansive energy and transcendental creativity provide a uniquely rewarding thrill.” Kerrang!

"An exhilarating ride, one which continually scales modes of attack and intensity, even as it's held in place by SLIFT’s purposeful songwriting.” - The Wire

"SLIFT’s mind-expanding mastery of heavy dynamics, six-string flair and psychedelic experimentalism marks them out as one of the most exciting metal bands we’ve heard...” Guitar World

Fantasia
Tracklisting:

1. Fantasia
2. Corrupted Sky
3. The Village
4. A Storm of Wings
5. Orbis Tertius
6. Waiting Man
7. The Day of Execution
8. Secret Mirror