While most bands settle into sameness, Sextile careens through genres like a skipping stone on battery acid. The Los Angeles-based duo of Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keehn spark, jolt, and veer: from No Wave’s skeletal snarl to hardstyle’s hammering hysteria, they stitch dissonance into dancefloor delirium. Their 2023 Sacred Bones debut Push wasn’t so much a calling card as a flare fired from a basement rave. Now, with yes, please., out May 2, 2025 via Sacred Bones, they return grinning, gasping, and gunning it down the fast lane of electro-anarchy. Sextile spit in the eye of cohesion, pulling joy from chaos and friction from form.
Kids careens like a sugar rush in freefall: trance-pop with teeth, where Mel Scaduto scales skyscrapers built from synths and sighs. Her voice vaults skyward, all shimmer and shriek, locking arms with Izzy Glaudini of Automatic for a chorus that combusts midair. Call it punk. Call it party. Call it panic. Just don’t call it predictable. It’s a neon-soaked tantrum thrown at the altar of rhythm, where the music hits like a strobe to the sternum.
“The song is about being a teenager where you start to figure out who you are and feel misunderstood by your family but the feeling you get of finding your people and music for the first time that is yours” Scaduto comments. “Similar to myself feeling depressed at that age then sneaking out and going to raves and shows and realising I was gonna be alive elsewhere and the future looked hopeful rather than bleak.”
The accompanying video was directed by Boy Harsher’s Augustus Muller. “This track MOVES,” he says. “I wanted to design something that could match the energy. On set we kept asking “how do we make this faster?” And move it does, channeling the retrofuturism of Run Lola Run. Can you keep up?
Watch the video for “Kids” below:
Sextile’s latest offering fuses brute-force bass with basement-born confessionals, a record where anarchic electronics collide with bruised emotion under strobe-lit ceilings. It lurches between sweat-drenched euphoria and raw-nerve vulnerability, flinging personal wreckage into the rave pit with glee and guts. The opening salvo, a siren scream lifted from a forgotten 2000s warehouse, signals no safety here, just stroboscopic chaos and beats fat enough to fracture concrete. Scaduto and Keehn don’t so much perform as provoke, grinning through the wreckage. This is no polished playlist fare; it’s a blistered dancefloor diary. Every track itches with urgency, careening between self-exposure and self-obliteration. Beneath the breakbeats and blown-out basslines is a mantra: live fast, feel everything, never rewind.
Listen to Kids below and pre-order yes, please. here.
Sextile live dates:
- May 1 – DTLA, LA – Lights Down Low ft Sextile Record Release Party
- May 23 – Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
- May 24 – Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol, UK
- May 25 – Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK
- May 27 – Stereo, Glasgow, UK
- May 28 – The White Hotel, Manchester, UK
- May 30 – Dust, Brighton, UK
- May 31 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
- Jun 01 – Where Else?, Margate, UK
- Jun 03 – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR
- Jun 04 – Trabendo, Paris, FR
- Jun 05 – Le Tetris, Le Havre, FR
- Jun 06 – Les Mouillotins Festival, Saint Point, FR
- Jun 07 – Art Rock, St Brieuc, FR
- Jun 10 – Altstadt, Eindhoven, NL
- Jun 11 – Paradiso Upstairs, Amsterdam, NL
- Jun 12 – Rotown, Rotterdam, NL
- Jun 13 – Schon Schön, Mainz, DE
- Jun 16 – B72, Vienna, AT
- Jun 17 – Durer Kert, Budapest, HU
- Jun 19 – Blind, Istanbul, TR
- Jun 21 – B-Sides Festival, Lucerne, CH
- Jun 23 – Zirka, Munich, DE
- Jun 24 – Bumann & Sohn, Cologne, DE
- Jun 25 – Molotow, Hamburg, DE
- Jun 26 – Modus, Berlin, DE
- Jun 28 – VooDoo, Warsaw, PL
- Jun 30 – Gwarek, Krakow, PL
- Jul 03 – Rock Wertcher, Wertcher, BE
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