This Is Shit have just premiered their new video and single titled ‘Moloko Plus’, featuring Johnny Longlegs, from their upcoming album ‘ΛV’ (pronounced “lambda V”), dropping October 30th.
French chaos merchants This Is Shit have always sounded like a band trying to hotwire a nightclub while a post punk gig collapses in the next room, but ‘Moloko Plus’ might be the first time they have made the whole beautiful mess feel genuinely seductive. Featuring Johnny Longlegs, the track barrels forward with the kind of smug confidence usually reserved for acts who have already convinced themselves they invented cool. Against all odds, they might actually deserve it this time. Every synth pulse and guitar stab lands with surgical precision, yet the song never loses the sweaty human panic that keeps their music from drifting into sterile laptop cosplay.
Johnny Longlegs turns out to be the perfect co conspirator here. His presence adds a wiry glamour to the track, like somebody smearing neon lipstick across a broken arcade cabinet. The chemistry never feels forced or gimmicky, which is increasingly rare in an era where “featuring” usually means someone emailed a vocal stem from another continent and called it collaboration. Instead, ‘Moloko Plus’ sounds alive. It breathes, flexes, and occasionally grins like it knows it is getting away with something.
What really makes the single hit is how effortlessly it balances euphoria with menace. One second you are floating inside a gleaming electro pop ascent, the next you are getting dragged through a wall of distorted guitars that feel ripped from a warehouse show at 3 AM. This Is Shit have been orbiting this rock and electronic hybrid for years, but ‘Moloko Plus’ finally feels like the exact center of their strange little universe. The production is slick without sanding off the edges, which probably explains why the involvement of Hans Olsson feels less like a studio flex and more like a logical evolution.
The upcoming album ΛV already sounded ambitious on paper, all mirrored aesthetics and cinematic flow, but ‘Moloko Plus’ suggests the band might actually pull the whole thing off. The track has that rare quality of making you want to replay it immediately, partly to relive the rush and partly to figure out how so many moving parts stay locked together without exploding. It feels less like genre fusion and more like two genres reluctantly agreeing to stop fighting because the groove is too good to ruin.
Most bands spend their careers trying to sound bigger than they are. This Is Shit sound like they are trying to blow open the walls entirely. ‘Moloko Plus’ is loud, ecstatic, stylish, and just self aware enough to avoid disappearing up its own leather jacket. If this is the shape of ΛV before its October 30 release, then This Is Shit are not merely returning in 2026. They are arriving with the kind of sneering, fluorescent confidence that makes lesser indie acts immediately start rethinking their entire aesthetic.
Featured image by Christophe Crénel.
About This Is Shit
This Is Shit are set to return for 2026 with their second album ‘ΛV’ coming on 30th October and like the slanted signs of ΛV (pronounced “lambda V”) that invert and mirror each other, this new record interlocks two aesthetics that were never meant to coexist: rock and electronic music. A formula unique to This Is Shit.
Behind this graphic project with its sharply crafted artistic direction stands composer Loïc Louraco. Driven by the need not to choose between two radically different ways of creating : rock, which he has practiced his entire life, and electronic music, which he explores in parallel, he formed a hybrid creation in 2017: a trio in which he is both producer and principal instrumentalist. And thus sparked the collision between the two worlds.
A signature sound first discovered by audiences through the EPs / (“Slash”) and // (“Double Slash”) in 2018, followed by the album /// (“Triple Slash”), which concluded a first creative cycle in 2020.
After a challenging start to the decade, the artist entered a new writing phase that stretched over several months. Born from improvisations or long nights of production on Ableton, the tracks were pushed to their limits. The sound is more controlled, the album more impactful. For this new project, This Is Shit chose to take production even further by collaborating with Swedish producer Hans Olsson (Division of Laura Lee).
An initial studio session in Paris allowed the three musicians to record, in a traditional rock band setting, guitars, bass, and drums. The tracks were then sent to Gothenburg, where they were reworked by the producer and director as a temporary electronic duo. The collaboration felt natural, and the results fruitful, bringing a unique coherence to this new release. Like a film soundtrack, ‘ΛV’ carries the listener from scene to scene, from emotions to sensations, from celebrations to contemplation, in a continuous, unbroken flow between tracks.
The next single to come from the album is ‘Moloko Plus’, featuring Johnny Longlegs. On the track This Is Shit lets its rock-techno universe spill into a more pop-electro and luminous aesthetic. Melodic guitars, an unstoppable structure and a unifying energy drive a euphoric build-up toward a sense of release and renewal. A key third single that confirms the upcoming album will stand as a landmark of the rock / electro shift within the new French Touch.
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