Two decades on from their first experiments in small rooms and smaller clubs, Berlin’s The Nouve still sounds like a secret society broadcasting through a broken transmitter. They remain among the few who refuse dilution, sharpening their collision of darkwave, post-punk, electro, trip-hop, and ambient until it cuts across the floor with sudden force. Conceilerator, their forthcoming album, thrives on that tension between groove and ratio, invention and lament.
“It all started in 2002 with a music project…with a friend of mine which was called The Dying Horse,” Robert Nouve recalls. “It was pretty simple and straight, just some poems and some sort of electroclash we’ve transported in small clubs or shops just to find out how it feels to be on stage, however small they be.” From those makeshift beginnings, Nouve learned to treat the stage as a testing ground, where even failure was fuel. He spun records in gothic and rock clubs, folded the residue into his own voice, and carried the habit forward.
The new record arrives in an era where the marketplace gorges itself while the underground tightens its belt. Nouve lays it bare: “Capitalism won, independent music lost and agreed to play by the rules of the market: while the world suffers from warfare and egomania, it’s getting harder and harder to make worthy music under such circumstances, but we are giving our best, still claiming to be safe haven for those believing in reason, justice and peace.” That line is less resignation than rallying cry, a reminder that the struggle is the art.
The accompanying video, filmed in black and white, shifts between a modern city, a psychedelic performance, and a close-up mouth spewing menace. A fractured triptych: metropolis, ritual, oracle. It mirrors the music’s contradictions; movement and paralysis, desire and doubt.
Watch the video for “WOLFTIME” below:
Conceilerator will be unveiled through a listening party on September 16, 2025, at 3:00 PM EDT. Joined by collaborator M.T. Hart, The Nouve promise to open the gates early, play the new material, and invite questions. For a band that began in near-obscurity, this is another intimate encounter, one that insists on dialogue as much as dance.
The Nouve keep faith with those who search the darkened corners of culture for reason, justice, and peace, and they do so by setting the night to their own fractured beat.
Listen to Wolftime below and pre-order the album here.
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