Mexico City’s Gris Futuro occupies the spaces between past and present; tactile machinery and flickering digital ghosts; the relentless acceleration of modern life and the hypnotic pull of its shadowed corners. On November 7th, 2025, the duo will finally unveil their debut full-length, Nowadaze, via à La Carte Records, arriving on lush 12” vinyl.
In a cultural moment dominated by algorithmic flattening and playlists designed for background noise, Gris Futuro offer something deliberately imprecise: a lived-in, voltage-driven sound that hums with the errors and warmth of human touch. Their new single, Shine (A Neon Light), is a reminder that the future always carries the static of the past, and that imperfection is where the spark lives.
Formed in late 2021 by Lithuanian vocalist Eglė Naujokaitytė and Mexican synthesist Rogelio Serrano (best known under his alias Equinoxious), Gris Futuro are synth purists in a digital age. Where most musicians chase pristine perfection through laptops and endless plugins, Gris Futuro build their songs from electricity itself: modular racks, vintage drum machines, analog circuitry. Their instruments breathe, crackle, and sometimes fail in unpredictable ways. That volatile hum of chaos gives the music its pulse.
Shine (A Neon Light) expands the duo’s vision of a world suspended between dystopia and desire. Its great mid-80s Italo disco synth work beams with metallic shimmer, while Naujokaitytė’s high, airy vocals hover above the circuitry like a signal from another frequency. The track manages something rare: it feels euphoric in its expansive style, even as it leans into the tension of static, voltage, and overload. The result is a strain of minimal synth that feels both steeped in history and eerily prescient: echoing the stark allure of pioneers like Portion Control, The Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor, and Minny Pops, while standing shoulder to shoulder with modern luminaries such as Xeno & Oaklander, Martial Canterel, and Linea Aspera.
Listen to “Shine (A Neon Light)” below and pre-order “Nowadaze” here.
Gris Futuro capture the vertigo of being alive in the present, suspended between timelines, caught in the glow of machines that both liberate and ensnare us. Nowadaze is their hymn to this uneasy condition: a record that understands that to sound human, music sometimes has to sound broken. In the cracks between perfect beats and fluorescent melodies, Gris Futuro shine all the brighter.
Nowadaze collects and refracts the duo’s recent output, including the haunting Lithuanian-language single Juodi Žirgai, an ode to hidden depths and the inner “black sun” of intuition…and Hiperenfoque, a kinetic meditation on the hyperfixations of the neurodivergent mind. Across the album, Naujokaitytė’s multilingual lyrics (English, Spanish, Lithuanian, and French) unravel subconscious twists, sensual thresholds, and the fragile architecture of the self, while Serrano’s analogue textures oscillate between austere machinery and dancefloor gravity.
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