Nantes-based noise-rock quartet Tickles will unleash their debut studio album Sugar & Plastic Plates on November 28, 2025, via Stolen Body Records (UK) and A Tant Rêver du Roi (FR). A sonic assault of fuzz, feedback, and fury, the record takes the raw chaos that defined their early EPs and molds it into something sharper, darker, and even more unhinged.
Emerging from France’s underground punk circuit in 2018, Tickles quickly became one of the country’s most unpredictable and exciting live acts. Their breakout 2020 EP I Love You Paul introduced a sound that drew comparisons to Idles, Fontaines D.C., and METZ—brutal, sarcastic, and cathartic. Follow-up release Ticklesticklesticklesticklesticklestickles pushed that intensity even further, blending absurd humor with real emotional volatility.
Now, with Sugar & Plastic Plates, Tickles turn the volume and vulnerability up another notch. Across nine tracks, the band digs into themes of anxiety, abandonment, and fractured family dynamics, using searing riffs and pummeling rhythms to explore the messier corners of human connection. From the relentless churn of “The Safest Car” to the heavy disco-inflected pulse of “Daughters Around” (released October 21), the band finds power in discomfort and beauty in the noise.
Recorded with Christophe Hogommat (Mad Foxes, Watertank), mixed by Joris Saïdani (Birds in Row), and mastered by Thibault Chaumont (W!zard, Carpenter Brut), the album captures the feral live energy that has made Tickles a cult favorite. It’s heavy, kinetic, and unafraid to bend the rules of noise-rock into unexpected shapes — sometimes melodic, often menacing, and always cathartic.
Tickles’ sound feels like a collision between punk chaos and emotional excavation — a record that celebrates release and recklessness while staring down the ghosts of growing up. Sugar & Plastic Plates isn’t just another debut; it’s a declaration from a band that thrives on tension, humor, and sonic danger.
The album arrives November 28, 2025, on limited edition vinyl and all major streaming platforms.
Watch the video for “THE SAFEST CAR” below:
