Up next from their forthcoming album Bite Reality, multi-Platinum duo Cafuné today release the record’s second single “Attack + Release.” The overcast, sultry ballad sees the band allowing the weight of their subconscious float to the surface, with contributions from percussionist Connor Parks and saxophonist Alfredo Colón — Stream.
Diving into their new release, Cafuné shared, “This song is about a crisis of faith; how people can lose their sense of self and belief in each other. Reject the cycle of cynicism because life is always a cycle of ebb and flow, here and gone, attack and release.”
Written and produced by band members Noah Yoo and Sedona Schat, Bite Reality will arrive on September 12 via SoundOn. As the New York duo stare head-on into a world of digital degradation, they ask what humanity looks like in an era increasingly defined by AI, algorithms, and artificial intimacy. They’re no longer running from the bite of reality, but biting reality back; their lyrics teem with brutal honesty, not avoidant analogy.
At the end of May, the band released the album’s thematic centerpiece, the single and video “e-Asphyxiation.” The guitar-driven electro-pop track confronts the cyberpunk conceit of “high-tech low-life” — the difficult task of remaining human in the dehumanizing world we have built. In the first few weeks, the single received over 600k streams, was used in almost 4k TikTok videos that pulled in 40 million views, was spun on BBC Radio 1’s Future Artists and much more.
Cafuné’s 3X Platinum song “Tek It” surpassed 1 billion streams in part due to its cultural moment on TikTok, making SoundOn a fitting release partner for the band’s new music about the pitfalls of the internet. Since 2022, the song has received its own Fortnite emote, and was sampled in Lil Uzi Vert’s single “Red Moon.” After their journey the last ten years, Cafuné are prepared to face themselves, the world around them, and bite back.
This September and October, Cafuné will set out on their largest headline tour to date, the Alive Online Tour with support from crushed. All tour info can be found here and below.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
September 19 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis*
September 20 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore – The Foundry*
September 22 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall*
September 23 – Montréal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB*
September 24 – Toronto, ON – The Great Hall*
September 26 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall*
September 27 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon*
September 30 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall*
October 2 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge*
October 5 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*
October 6 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile – Madame Lou’s*
October 8 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club*
October 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom*
October 12 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge*
October 14 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas – Cambridge Room*
October 15 – Austin, TX – The Parish*
October 17 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade – Hell*
October 18 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle – Backroom*
October 22 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg*
*with support from crushed
All tour dates here
ABOUT CAFUNÉ:
Four years ago, in a vastly different context, Cafuné—the indie-pop powerhouse of Noah Yoo and Sedona Schat—released Running, a bionic debut album that soundtracked a collective urge for post-pandemic escapism. That record, Schat says, “is literally all about running away.” But as the duo enters its tenth year, their foundational questions—of authenticity, artificiality, and the existential tension between the two—feel more pressing than ever. “The entire time that the band has existed,” Schat says, “it’s always been about negotiating between digital manipulation and raw realness.”
This moment—one increasingly defined by AI, algorithms, and artificial intimacy—is very much a bastion of “digital manipulation” in itself. Recorded in 2024, their new record Bite Reality (out September 12 via SoundOn) finds the band at a familiar crossroads, reckoning between real and fake. The difference, this time around, is that they’re doing it in the real world, too. And it sounds like it. Bite Reality captures Cafuné in a confrontational state, no longer running from the bite of reality, but biting reality back. Their guitars growl; their vocals snarl; their lyrics teem with brutal honesty, not avoidant analogy. “Self-flagellation is not cute after a certain point,” Yoo says, with a laugh. “That’s not even helpful,” Schat adds. “What helps you to be better is actually facing: What is really wrong, and how do I work through it?”
Bite Reality is about the fine line between documenting your existence and doing the work to actually exist. What does humanity look, sound, and feel like in a dehumanizing era? Why prove that you’re alive when you can just live?
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