Balvanera – SIDE-LINE https://www.side-line.com Industrial, electro, EBM, post-punk, darkwave news Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:05:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://www.side-line.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-side-line-logo-png-32x32.png Balvanera – SIDE-LINE https://www.side-line.com 32 32 Balvanera bring ‘Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje’ to limited aquamarine vinyl https://www.side-line.com/balvanera-hasta-tocar-lp/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.side-line.com/balvanera-hasta-tocar-lp/ Balvanera release "Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje" on 1 October 2026 via avant! on 500 aquamarine vinyl copies, split released with DKA in the US.]]>

Argentine dark electro and EBM duo Balvanera release the new album “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje” on 1 October 2026 through Italian label avant! Records. The vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies on aquamarine wax and comes with a lyrics sheet; the album is split released with DKA Records in the United States. Preorders run via the label’s store and Bandcamp.

The album follows the first single “Desgaste“, whose official video premiered in early July and which is streaming on all platforms.

Balvanera sing ‘Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje’ entirely in Spanish

Every track on the album is sung in Spanish. The duo treats the record as an exercise with the language itself, turning its baroque side into something stark while keeping its richness. The title, meaning “until touching the empty bottom of language”, is borrowed from a fragment of Arturo Carrera’s poem “Escrito con un nictógrafo”. Avant! describes the record’s nocturnal streak as “those thoughts and images that can only emerge in the sleepless hours of the night, when they reach their most revealing edge”.

Musically the album moves between the minimalism of the band’s early releases and the club-oriented intensity of their later work. The A-side runs “Salvaje”, “Estrategia”, “Desgaste”, “Desesperanza” and “Un nuevo frío”; the B-side holds “Arquetipo”, “Del fin”, “Sintagma”, “Mecanismo”, “Fantasía y expulsión” and “Paranoia”.

About Balvanera

Balvanera is the project of Agustina Vizcarra and Lucas Palavecino from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Active since 2016, the duo has moved between coldwave, minimal synth and the more rhythmic end of body music, and has shared stages with Clan of Xymox, Boy Harsher, Die Selektion, Kontravoid, NNHMN and Ashcode.

The band works with avant! Records in Europe and DKA Records in the US. In July 2026 the duo released the single and video “Desgaste” as the first preview of the new album, covered earlier in Balvanera share ‘Desgaste’ video, announce new album. “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje” now follows on 1 October 2026 as their next full-length statement, pressed on a single run of 500 aquamarine vinyl copies.

]]> Balvanera Archives - SIDE-LINE nonadult Balvanera share ‘Desgaste’ video and announce new album https://www.side-line.com/balvanera-desgaste-new-album/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:37:36 +0000 https://www.side-line.com/?p=94597 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.]]>

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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