Impure Wilhelmina Premiere 'Le Sanglot'

IMPURE WILHELMINA are premiering the full album stream for their new album Le Sanglot. The veteran post-hardcore band’s ninth album arrives as their most radical transformation yet. While they continue to lean heavier on alt. rock melodies, for the first time in their 30-year history, all song are sung in French.

Le Sanglot comes out tomorrow, Friday, May 22 on Season of Mist, but you can hear all 10 vibrant songs today by listening to the full album stream below.

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Conceived as the sonic equivalent of weeping, Le sanglot surveys a fractured world with surgical coldness, yet never forecloses on the possibility of grace. Impure Wilhelmina moves between crushing weight and melodic restraint, from the cathartic surge of opening track "Électricité noire" to the fragile radiance of closer "À jamais radieuse," with the French language sharpening both the imagery and the emotional register throughout. The album introduces  the band’s new guitarist Edouard Nicod, whose arrangements broaden the band’s textural scope. It  features a collaboration with French artist Mütterlein on "Train mort" the album’s most abrasive song.

Line-up:

Michael Schindl — Vocals, Guitar

Mario Togni — Drums

Sébastien Dutruel — Bass

Edouard Nicod — Guitar

Marion Leclercq (Mütterlein) — Guest Vocals on “Train mort”

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Impure Wilhelmina Release New Single "Blanche réalité"

With "Blanche réalité," post-hardcore vets IMPURE WILHELMINA offer the second glimpse into Le sanglot, their upcoming new album and first entirely in French.

"Blanche réalité" (White Reality) maps a state of persistent, low-grade alienation: a person going through the motions of daily existence, disoriented at the center of a world from which all warmth has been subtracted. The song finds its biographical root in a winter hike Impure Wilhelmina vocalist and guitarist Michael Schindl took, during which he nearly lost himself in the fog. That real, physical experience of erasure sits at the core of the song's emotional logic, grounding an otherwise interior state in something concrete and felt.

                                        Watch the official music video for "Blanche réalité" Below:

Le Sanglot comes out May 22, 2026 on Season of Mist

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The video for "Blanche réalité" extends the song's territory rather than illustrating it. Shot entirely on location in fog-bound natural landscapes with no band performance, the video follows a solitary figure moving through mist-consumed fields and bare woodland without ever arriving anywhere. The palette is almost entirely de-saturated, with animals functioning as the visual counterpart to the lyrics: present, unreachable, moving through the fog with a purposefulness the human figure lacks. Only in the final seconds does color return, a handful of amber leaves around water, an image that offers no clear resolution.

Line-up:
Michael Schindl — Vocals, Guitar
Mario Togni — Drums
Sébastien Dutruel — Bass
Edouard Nicod — Guitar

Production Credits:
Recorded at Kitchen Studio, Geneva, Switzerland.
Produced, engineered & mixed by Yvan Bing at Kitchen Studio, except for track 9, recorded by Serge Morattel at Rec Studio.
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.

Recording Line-up:
Michael Schindl
Mario Togni
Sébastien Dutruel
Edouard Nicod

Guest Musician:
Marion Leclercq (Mütterlein) on the track 6, ‘Train Mort’.

Cover Art:
Giganto (http://giganto.ch/)

Photography:
Mehdi Benkler

  

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