Diana Ringo releases darkwave and post-punk album ‘Clowns in America’
Finnish artist Diana Ringo released her darkwave and post-punk album “Clowns in America” on 3 July 2026, an 11-track follow-up to her 2025 debut “CYBERWOLF”.
Finnish artist Diana Ringo released her second vocal album, “Clowns in America”, on 3 July 2026. The Helsinki-based songwriter, film director and composer writes, produces and performs her own material, and presents the 11-track record as darkwave, post-punk and avant-garde electronic. “Clowns in America” is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.
Diana Ringo ‘Clowns in America’ follows the 2025 debut ‘CYBERWOLF’
The album runs to eleven tracks: “Reptile”, “Yesterdays”, “Price of Admission”, “Fracture”, the title track “Clowns in America”, “Scripture of Scars”, “Titanic”, “Touched”, “Teeth”, “Golden Waves” and “Alpha & Omega”. It continues the vocal direction Ringo opened on her debut vocal album “CYBERWOLF”, released on 17 October 2025 and preceded by the single “Happy Mealz” on 17 August 2025. As on that record, Ringo handled the writing, production and performance herself.
About Diana Ringo
Diana Ringo (born 8 March 1992) is a Finnish film director, composer, pianist and visual artist based in Helsinki. A classically trained pianist with perfect pitch, she studied under Janne Mertanen and Risto Lauriala and attended master classes with composer Lalo Schifrin and directors Paul Verhoeven and David Lynch. Her score for Sampson Yuen’s film “Million Loves in Me” won Best Original Score at the LAFA Awards in 2020.
Ringo directed the dystopian feature “Quarantine” (2021), for which she wrote 26 original score tracks and which Finland forwarded as a foreign entry in the 2022 Golden Globes process. She followed it with a film adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984”, released on 15 November 2023, and “The Curse of Modigliani”, her first English-language feature, shot in Helsinki and released on 7 December 2025.
She moved into vocal-led songwriting in 2025. The single “Happy Mealz” arrived on 17 August 2025 ahead of her debut vocal album “CYBERWOLF” on 17 October 2025, described as a post-punk record. “Clowns in America”, released on 3 July 2026, is her next album and carries that post-punk and darkwave direction across eleven new tracks.
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