Balvanera share ‘Desgaste’ video and announce new album
Buenos Aires dark synth duo Balvanera share the “Desgaste” video and announce a new album for October 1, 2026 via DKA Records and Avant! Records.
Balvanera
Argentine dark synth duo Balvanera have released the single “Desgaste” with a video and announced their next album, “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje”, for 1 October 2026 on DKA Records in the US and Avant! Records in Europe and the UK. The “Desgaste” video arrived on 2 July 2026.
Martín Legón directed the video, a stop-motion collage built from nature footage, glitching machines and old television fragments. “Desgaste” is the first single from the album and the duo’s first new material since their 2021 record. Balvanera sing entirely in Spanish.
Balvanera preview a new album with ‘Desgaste’
The album title comes from a fragment of Argentine poet Arturo Carrera’s “Escrito con un nictógrafo” (“Written with a Nyctograph”). “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje” translates as “Until Touching the Empty Bottom of Language”.
The record continues Balvanera’s work with DKA Records. The label released their 2021 album “Courses of Action”, their first for DKA, and now handles US distribution for the new album while Avant! Records covers Europe and the UK. “Desgaste” and the album are available to pre-order through the band’s Bandcamp page.
About Balvanera
Balvanera is a dark synth duo from Buenos Aires, Argentina, made up of Agustina Vizcarra and Lucas Palavecino. The pair issued a self-titled EP in 2016 and released music across minimal synth, wave and EBM over the following years. In 2019 they appeared on the Metropolis Records compilation “Dark Nouveau”, curated by Athan Maroulis, alongside acts such as She Past Away, Twin Tribes and Ash Code. In January 2021 they released the album “Courses of Action” on DKA Records.
“Desgaste” opens the campaign for “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje”, which returns the duo to DKA Records and adds Avant! Records for Europe and the UK ahead of the 1 October 2026 release.
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