Originally released in March 2025 with a featured vocal, Afterthought now appears in its most intimate and personal form: re-recorded as a duo performance that places the song’s emotional core fully in the foreground. Written during a snowy December evening in London, Afterthought explores the universal experience of pretending not to think about someone while being completely consumed by their memory. It captures the quiet obsession of replaying conversations, imagining alternate outcomes, and wondering whether those feelings are shared — the ache of a love filled with unfulfilled potential. “Afterthought is a song about that person you pretend to not...

Enta Omry is the most expansive and intimate work to date from experimental/drone project Maulén. Built around a single, uninterrupted 57-minute composition, the album is a radical reinterpretation of the iconic song by Oum Kulthum, shaped not in a studio, but across Morocco and the Sahara Desert—through travel, endurance, and deep listening. Maulén is the brainchild of composer, musician, and visual artist Carlos Ibarra. Named after his grandmother, a member of the Mapuche people of Chile, Maulén translates to “a wet valley.” Since its inception, the project has sought out environments that leave a mark on the music—places where sound,...

Swedish artist Bonander releases edith on January 16 via Icons Creating Evil Art. The song is the final single ahead of her second album and we stood there, due February 13, and stands as one of the record’s most dramatic and conceptually charged pieces. “The album is about different stages of powerlessness,” Bonander explains. “I think that comes from feeling a simultaneous apathy and panic toward the chaos of the world right now.” Bonander has been described by GAFFA and Hymn as one of Sweden’s most underrated artists—an irony not lost on an artist whose project has existed and evolved...

Swedish indie band Tribe Friday return with their new single Parasitas, released January 16, 2026 via Icons Creating Evil Art. The track is the final preview ahead of the band’s upcoming EP The Band Formerly Known As Tribe Friday, out February 6, 2026.Parasitas is a soft, melodic indie pop song that explores emotional dependency, avoidance, and the fragile comfort of unhealthy patterns. Built around gentle guitars, restrained dynamics and a lingering melody, the song captures the fear of honesty — with others and with yourself — and the quiet tension between longing and self-preservation. Parasitas also marks the band’s first release entirely in Swedish, bringing a new closeness to their songwriting....

On January 16th, 2026, Satan Takes A Holiday release Covering Our Tracks: Part 1 via Icons Creating Evil Art — the first installment of a broader album project that began with a series of singles released in 2025 and will continue unfolding through summer 2026. As the title suggests, Covering Our Tracks: Part 1 collects reinterpretations of classic songs from different eras and genres, all filtered through the band’s raw energy, garage-rock grit, and punk swagger. The EP showcases the band’s evolving creative process while honoring the music that helped shape their sound. Focus Track: Today Your Love, Tomorrow the...

The Guilt announce new album Naked Rat Dance - A high-speed collision of electropunk, riot-goth maximalism, and feral emotional honesty Swedish electropunk duo The Guilt return with their third full-length album, Naked Rat Dance, out January 15th via Icons Creating Evil Art. The Malmö pair — Emma Wahlgren and Lizzy — deliver their most emotionally charged and sonically expansive work to date: an album built from friction, velocity, and the exhilarating chaos of being human. “Naked Rat Dance is a major emotional output,” the band explains. “The range is wider but it hits harder.” The Guilt have long been known...