Exsonvaldes return with new single ‘Paris Bruxelles’ and announce upcoming album

Out now via V2 Records, ‘PAris Bruxelles’ marks the beginning of a new chapter for Exsonvaldes. Rawer, louder, and more direct than ever. the release of the single is a first tease of the new album ‘Ninety Seconds to Midnight’, which will be released February 13, 2026.

After more than two decades of music that has seen them evolve from indie darlings to French alt-pop mainstays, Exsonvaldes are gearing up to release their sixth album, ‘Ninety Seconds to Midnight’. The record finds the trio, Simon Beaudoux, Martin Chourrout, and Antoine Bernard, reconnecting with the electric urgency of their beginnings, while embracing the experience and self-assurance earned over the years.

Opening the album, ‘Paris Bruxelles’ sets the tone: sharp riffs, tension-filled verses, and cathartic choruses that recall the tight craftmanship of Spoon. Co-written with David Sultan (Her, Aliocha Schneider, Ivan Dorn), the song captures the bittersweet push and pull of long-distance relationships and the restless beauty of two cities that mirror each other in their light and melancholy. “It’s a somewhat hazy song” says frontman Simon, “we started writing the track right after Covid. David (Sultan) had just moved there. My sister has also moved there just before the lockdown. And it’s a city we know well, very close and at the same time very different, with a different pace and a different sky. We wanted to capture this ambivalence, the artistic energy, the feeling of freedom that can come with settling in a new country, but also the endless grayness, the solitude of that period. A mix of fascination and melancholy.”

After their acclaimed 2023 comeback ‘Maps’, Exsonvaldes channel the distorted energy of ‘90s rock on ‘Ninety Seconds to Midnight’, a back-to-the-roots record that’s as instinctive as it is introspective. from the fuzz-fueled ‘Tate (Like The Museum)’ to the haunting ‘Abandoned Water Park’, the album brims with both urgency and emotional depth, a reflection on our age of uncertainty.