SOULWAX – Electro Wizards Deliver Masterly Opus With New Album ‘ALL SYSTEMS ARE LYING’
17 October 2025
SOULWAX, the Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele‘s band for 30 years now,
is only one of the siblings’ diverse projects. They DJed the world around as 2manydjs,
had their own Radio Soulwax, and produced/remixed countless other artists.
Today they launched their 6th longplayer named ALL SYSTEMS ARE LYING’.
Press info: “Soulwax’s first new album in 8 years, entitled All Systems Are Lying, showcases the band’s return with a touch of Ibiza and a post-punk electronic funk edge. Since 1995, David and Stephen Dewaele have consistently pushed the boundaries of music by diversifying into various guises.”
Credit: Nadine Fraczkowski
TUTV: Soulwax excel here with a kaleidoscopic sonic amalgam that connects Kraftwerk‘s otherworldly euphoniousness and The Orb‘s ambient dynamics and at times Cabaret Voltaire‘s experimental capriciousness
The record’s arresting strength, to my ears, is it’s underlying poppiness. Half of
the album is stuffed with pop tunes, enwrapped in the bros’ electronic universe.
It’s not pure techno, not pure dance, not really EBM, rather a versatile, chameleon-like
kind of synth-layered album that sparkles and effervesces non-stop and they aren’t afraid
of tackling the powers that be, the systems that are after your soul.
The siblings got it right: “It’s a rock record without guitars”.
Soulwax is back with a masterly opus.
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Stream on Spotify right HERE.
