Norwegian indie-pop group Nansy return with their long-awaited debut album, arriving 25 years after the band first formed in Oslo around 2000. Originally a promising indie act, the band disbanded after releasing just one EP. Now, a quarter-century later, they reunite to finally complete their full-length debut. “We stayed friends but never really talked about reuniting. Then I got a message from Børge. He was sunbathing in Mallorca, listening to old demos, and wondered if I’d be up for recording something new. ‘Fun! I’m in!’ was my immediate response,” says vocalist Anita. Less than three years after that message was sent, Nansy return with a full album — with the same lineup as when they first parted ways: Anita Nansy Valderhaug on vocals, Børge Sildnes (aka Dylan Mondegreen) on guitars, bass, keyboards, production, Matias Hilmar Iversen on guitars, Thomas Hvammen Nicholson on bass and Trond Slåke on drums. Need You Around will be released on 29 May 2026 via Saiko and Fastcut Records (Japan). All ten tracks are written and produced by Børge Sildnes. In Nansy, however, he steps away from lead vocals, allowing Anita Nansy Valderhaug’s clear, intimate, and emotionally resonant voice to take center stage, giving the music a distinct softness and warmth. Running Into You, the album’s second single, a lighthearted, upbeat reflection on unexpectedly meeting an old friend and the rush of memories that follows, will be out tomorrow, but we’re streaming it now in exclusive premiere on TRISTE© ahead of its official release on Friday.

SUNLIT is the latest and most intimate incarnation of British songwriter and producer Joe Moore, a musician whose prolific output for Elefant Records since 2011 has traversed chamber pop, Italo disco, electronic pop, French 80s revivalism, and more. After over a decade of building worlds for other voices—The Yearning, Lia Pamina, Maddie Mae, Cristina Quesada, Julie Et Joe, The Perfect Kiss—Moore focused on a project in which he takes on everything himself, from composition to production to vocals. Launched just two years ago, SUNLIT revealed Moore at his most personal and unguarded. Where The Yearning leaned toward lush, ornate arrangements, SUNLIT moves with an austere elegance: dream-pop textures, shoegaze haze, folk-pop warmth, and crooner-like intimacy. Influences drift in from Cocteau Twins to Mazzy Star, from Lee Hazlewood to Beach House, but the emotional voltage is unmistakably Moore’s. In SUNLIT, Moore bares himself musically and emotionally more than ever before. His voice steps into the foreground, unadorned and honest, carrying songs that seem written for our inner worlds—for those private, infinite spaces we all drift through. SUNLIT is simplicity, radiance, and vulnerability woven into one: Joe Moore entering a new territory, and illuminating it from within. Today, TRISTE© presents the premiere of SUNLIT’s new single, Beside, ahead of its official release everywhere tomorrow. The track introduces the upcoming 2026 album with a striking sense of clarity and emotional radiance. Beside unfolds through reverberating tambourines, glistening arpeggios, and airy atmospheres that feel both weightless and profoundly human. What once was introspective in Joe Moore’s writing now shines outward—choruses that brighten the room, melodies that move like a slow-motion embrace. It’s a song of quiet liberation, capturing the fullness that emerges from emotional understanding and the tenderness of finally seeing oneself whole.