No more teeth
Life is bleak
**** your dollar
Los Angeles synth-punk agitators Sextile charge into the strobe-lit abyss with their new album yes, please., out May 2nd via Sacred Bones. While the duo have flirted with club culture before, this record sees them diving headlong into its sweat-slicked underbelly—sequencers snarling beside sawtooth synths, while kick drums pound like industrial pistons at full tilt.
The new single “Women Respond To Bass” offers a bracing dose of what’s to come. It’s all squelch, sass, and steel—an electro-punk provocation lit by strobes and soaked in adrenaline. Melissa Scaduto prowls the verse with tongue lodged firmly in cheek, before the mix combusts into high-voltage percussion and ricocheting synths. A sledgehammer wrapped in PVC and provocation.
“Women Respond To Bass was written as a sassy strutter for the girls, gays, and theys,” says Scaduto. “We originally wanted to do this video as a Boiler Room style video, but because of time we were unable. While we were in Tokyo, our new friends and promoters we were working with there offered to make a video, and they made it happen the next day. We shot it at 4am after we played a show and then regrouped for another night to shoot. Tokyo being the main character, we are now in love with Japan.”
Director Luna Vonn stitched together the video from handheld fragments of Sextile’s recent Japanese tour. It plays like a love letter to after-hours Tokyo: subway corridors flicker like fever dreams, the corridors of Golden Gai, Isikayas, Godzilla’s looming head, and the hum of Game centers bathed in saturated Shinjuku colour, while skyscrapers refract movement like a hall of mirrors—glitchy, pulsing, possessed. And even the famous Shibuya Crossing turns momentarily into an impromptu dance floor.
Watch the video for “Women Respond To Bass” below:
In just under three minutes, “Women Respond To Bass” embodies the blood-pumping core of yes, please.—a record that favours motion over inertia, subversion over stasis. It’s a declaration of lust, rhythm, and the urgent need to move, together and against.
Pre-order yes, please. here.
Sextile live:
- May 1 – DTLA, LA – Lights Down Low (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 29 – Rough Trade East, London, 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 Werchter, Werchter, BE
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