French punk band MADAM announces new album and shares the track 'Shut Up!' • GRIMM Gent

French rock trio MADAM announce the release of their second album, Hello Freaks, out 5 March 2027 via V2 Records, and share a new track from the record: “Shut Up!”, released on 6 November alongside an accompanying video. Following September’s “Bullshit”, the trio’s latest single offers another glimpse into an album that embraces the night, desire, chaos and the freedom to make some noise.

“Shut Up!” is about the night, desire, noise and life; the demons we celebrate and the ones we run from. It’s also about the people who would like to silence us, but have no choice but to watch us dance. An invitation to meet beneath the neon lights, where the music is loud and bodies are in motion.

After playing more than 300 shows across France and internationally, MADAM are preparing to open a new chapter without changing the way they make music: everything is written together, in the pale light of their rehearsal room. Following their last tour, the three musicians spent six months working there, writing and preparing to record the album’s 11 tracks. They then teamed up with Bertrand Poncet (Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Landmvrks), who had just eight days available to record the record. With time against them, the trio returned to the conditions that feel most natural: all three playing together in the same room, with plenty of energy, chaos and good humour — just like on stage.

Across Hello Freaks, MADAM explore disappointment, nightlife, desire and chaos, without ever losing their determination to keep moving forward and make some noise. “Bullshit” turns the end of a friendship into an anthem for the ones that remain and the ones still to come. “Shut Up!” takes listeners into the neon-lit world of late nights, loud music and moving bodies, while “The Man In White” gives evil a face and explores the different masks it can wear. With the title track “Hello Freaks”, the band returns to the heart of its identity: never having been the “cool kids”, but building a world of their own through MADAM, where they could finally find their place.

For MADAM, a record is never truly finished until it has been experienced live. Hello Freaks is made to be played loud, but above all, to come alive on stage: dancing, screaming, sweating, jumping and starting all over again. It’s what the band likes to call “rock bagarre content” — joyful, no-holds-barred rock.