Somewhere between krautrock, noise rock, decaying psychedelia, and pagan proto-punk, Dééfait makes music as one performs a ritual: in trance, on repeat, without a safety net.

From the chaotic arteries of Mexico City to the basement venues of the Paris suburbs, Dééfait sculpts noise rock in a state of breathless tension. Their self-titled debut EP is a noise rite: a wall of guitars, incantatory percussion, and possessed voices. Sound twists, repeats, stretches, until exhaustion and ecstasy.

Formed in 2023, Dééfait brings together the Valero brothers (Lucas on guitar; Pablo, ex-Pays P, on drums), Enir Da (bass – Temir Alcy, Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm), Grégoire Couvert (guitar), and Riki Lara, a Mexican-born vocalist and performer whose lyrics — chanted, whispered, shouted — alternate in English, Spanish, and French. Active on the Paris underground scene since 2024 (La Mécanique Ondulatoire, Le Cirque Électrique, Nouveaux Sauvages…), Dééfait imposes a ritual tension, physical, almost hallucinatory. No choruses, no comforting melodies, only a dense sonic flow that seeps and vibrates.

This debut EP, set for release in December 2025 on Ici, d’ailleurs (Zëro, Matt Elliott, Bruit Noir…), lines up six long tracks resembling pagan litanies. Six extended pieces forming a possessed monologue, as if a camera had been slipped inside a burning body. Everything gasps. Everything spills over.

In We Love Each Other So Much That We Won’t Belong To Any Species Anymore, love exceeds expected forms and becomes an organic pact, a ritual of species departure: “Cut me like you want, in bloom your fire,” “We scratch consanguinity / We don’t belong to any species anymore.” A call to ecstasy and trance. The EP moves through unstable zones where desire, sacrifice, and alienation entwine like serpents on acid. Molokh ∞ chants an offering to a carnivorous deity, between severed tongue and chemical body. In Bondbondbond, voices entangle and seek each other in a delirious, sensual chiaroscuro where pleasure derails into compulsion. Alether — live-explosive, perhaps the most powerful piece — shatters frameworks: convulsive dancing, possessed rhythms, guitar waves. Ferreri, cook for us closes the EP as a dark farce, chewing and regurgitating words as if digesting an overfed world.

Recorded in DIY chaos and mixed as a raw work, the record captures Dééfait’s electric discharge in its purest state. Dirty, visceral, possessed. Think Terminal Cheesecake, Boredoms, Nick Cave–era Birthday Party on acid; CAN impaled on an autopsy table; a Giallo under a strobe light. Yet the result stands as a singular work. A full-length album follows in 2026.

A1. We Love Each Other So Much That We Won't Belong To Any Species Anymore
A2. Molokh ∞
A3. BONDBONDBOND
B1. Comatose Big Sun
B2. Al'Ether
B3. Wow! Ferreri Cooked For Us