The Brazilian duo DEAFKIDS returns with a vital and combustive new album, CICATRIZES DO FUTURO (SCARS OF THE FUTURE). This nine-track sonic assault forges a path beyond the conventions and boundaries of static musical genres. Here, electronic fury and feverish organic percussion collide with a relentless Latin American. punk spirit. Cicatrizes do Futuro will be available on LP, CD and Digital formats via Neurot Recordings on 29 May 2026.
"Conceptually, the album is a visceral diagnosis of a world intoxicated by its own fictions of power, tracing the anatomy of a systemic grand deception and exploring its mechanics of psychological, social, and material domination, the indelible marks imprinted on bodies and minds and it's catastrophic consequences. It is a journey from the poisoned and addicted collective psyche to the desperate search for an antidote, while the future seems to be already cursed by the very forces that pretend to build it. Yet, for all its thematic weight, CICATRIZES DO FUTURO is hypnotically danceable - physical and ritualistic music that demands body movement as a form of mental cleansing. The album doesn't just reflect a fractured and violent world — it breathes desire to live and resist through new sonic paths"
Imbued with a frantic Afro-Latin pulse, lead single "CICATRIZES"(SCARS) is available to listen to today and features a dirty, danceable and sweat-soaked intersection between raw punk and clave-led Afro-Cuban music, with a futuristic approach and bloodshot eyes. Heavy pulsating 808 bass drums hit hard as a characteristic D-beat foundation for Sarine's ultrafast percussion played in the Guaguancó rhythm, driving a relentless Acid- House bassline and fuzzed walls of guitar riffs while processed vocals screams in absolute madness.
"The lyrics of 'CICATRIZES' are like an eyewitness account of a world collapsing, facing its devastating material and psychological consequences. Describing the journey from apathy to traumatic perception, from alienation to incurable witnessing, the song captures the state of a consciousness that, awakening from the collective delusion, confronts the terrifying reality that has been concealed. The rhetorical question 'Is it all a delirium?' is quickly answered and amplified: it is not individual, but a collective 'great delirium!', a toxic and dominant narrative that normalizes the absurd and paralyzes action."
They continue, "Our music comes from the perception of the environmental, political, and moral toxicity that permeates our realities under such conditions. In the context of the album, the scars are those of a brutally stolen past reflected in a wicked future. A permanent mark of violence is also a memory that will never be silenced!"
01. Parasita
02. Cicatrizes
03. Profecia
04. Simulacro
05. Advertência
06. Reflexo
07. Feitiço
08. Possessão Coletiva
09. Em Transe
