Sydney Valette announces Artoffact debut album ‘I Fucking Love You’
Paris darkwave artist Sydney Valette releases his Artoffact Records debut “I Fucking Love You” on 2 October 2026 on limited vinyl, CD and digital.
The Sydney Valette “I Fucking Love You” album lands on 2 October 2026 as the Paris darkwave artist’s debut for Artoffact Records. The record comes on a limited vinyl LP, on CD in a jewel box with booklet, and digitally, and mixes EBM pulses and synth-punk with coldwave textures and dark Italo-disco. Its ten songs revolve around modern romance, from obsessive passion to toxic love and emotional vulnerability.
Artoffact Records describes the result as “both a gritty club weapon and an intimate, beautifully haunted portrait of contemporary desire”. The title track is streaming now with an official video.
‘I Fucking Love You’: ten songs in three languages
The tracklist runs “Warrior”, “I Fucking Love You”, “Chaos & Order”, “Как Свеча”, “Relèves-toi”, “Le Cimetière de Turin”, “I Will Get You”, “UFO”, “Let Me Go” and “No Ibiza for Mr Valette”, with lyrics crossing French, English and Russian. Pre-orders run through Bandcamp, and European distribution of the vinyl and CD goes through Audioglobe.
About Sydney Valette
Sydney Valette is a Paris-based musician and producer who moves between darkwave, post-punk, electro and synthpop. His earlier catalogue includes the albums “Fight Back”, “How Many Lives” and “Other Side”, all of which remain available on vinyl and CD. Side-Line covered the release of “Home Alone” on white and black vinyl in 2022, and his album “The Healer” arrived in January 2025 on Icy Cold Records. He also appeared at the Prague Gothic Treffen festival in 2023.
“I Fucking Love You” now marks his first album for Artoffact Records, out on 2 October 2026.
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