Soulwax opened their live sets at Sziget Festival in Budapest last week and at Pukkelpop in Belgium yesterday with a short cover of Kavinsky’s “Nightcall.” “Part Of Vinco Never Dies” appeared on the screens beside the band—a tribute to Kavinsky (whose nickname was Vinco) and a nod to Soulwax’s documentary Part Of The Weekend Never Dies. Kavinsky passed away on July 28.
Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul returned to the stage yesterday at Pukkelpop, where they debuted a couple of tracks from their upcoming second album.
Here’s a translation of Sasha van der Speeten’s review on Humo.be:
Through two fake doors on stage stepped a broadly smiling Charlotte Adigéry and the irresistibly stoic Bolis Pupul. “Thank You,” by now an indie Belpop classic, sounded as quirky, sassy, mischievous, and risqué as ever.
Immediately after that came what we had hoped for: a brand-new song. Something with a galloping electro beat, Pupul’s shrill noise guitar, and icy beeps. Charlotte sang her ass off, blew kisses, and smashed no fewer than two cowbells to smithereens.
In other words, the successor to the acclaimed debut Topical Dancer is on its way. This was all the more evident from a second fresh song—grafted onto a robust, stripped-down ’80s drum machine beat—which transitioned into “Paténipat,” with a sensually shaking Charlotte as the cherry on top of the clafoutis.
“We are so damn happy to be standing here,” said a cheerful Charlotte. “We’ve worked so hard.” Yes, on that new record, of course. So we got fresh stuff again: a melancholic, slowly meandering synth-pop song titled “You Don’t Owe Me Anything,” and another funky mid-tempo track that could have come straight from the minds of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. To the left of Grace Jones, to the right of The SOS Band. “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” rang out in harmony at the tail end of the song. Rarely has the French Revolution sounded so nasty.
The cult hits followed. “Ha Ha,” “Blenda,” and “Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché”: the Ghent natives performed them with just as much panache as before, leaving the crowd tumbling with delightful madness across the wooden floor.
Even more new songs? Yep—something between a Prince production for, say, Sheena Easton and Solange’s “Losing You.” It featured a weird, staged phone conversation between Charlotte and Bolis in the outro, which seemed to poke fun at the airy-fairy amateur diagnoses of TikTok influencers.
And just like that, some more clattering Drexciya-style electro followed, until the dancers in the tent didn’t know what to do with themselves. Man, that new record is going to be awesome!
Marie Davidson has shared two poems from her upcoming book Traveller’s Faith (out September 1, 2026) via The Fader. The first poem is titled “Saul and the Coffee Machine,” while the second is called “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”:
You Can’t Have Always Get What You Want:
I saw you had seen
A picture of my ass
When all I really wanted
Was you to hear about the poems
The shape of a heart
Combined with your name
Seal of approval
Granted by a star
I must admit
It felt a bit silly
To think that maybe
It could lead you to the poems
Cuz if we get
To the bottom of it
I couldn’t help thinking
That you’d like my poetry
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