The Avalanches & many more | Les Nuits Weekender 2026 @ Le Botanique

Performers

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  THE AVALANCHES
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  Hether
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  Antony Szmierek

  An international artist from the UK.

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  Konradsen
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  Victoryland

  Victoryland is the Brooklyn-based project of musician Julian McCamman. His label-debut, My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It, out January 23, 2026 via Good English, is a triumphant, despondent, and ultimately fun experimental pop-rock album. Victoryland started in Philly 2023 with the release of tape, Sprain, which echoed more of what the Philly scene was dishing out: lo-fi, tape-recorded rock with a capital R. It was the collaborative efforts of producer Dan Howard that brought the new vision and sound into full focus.Dan and Julian previously worked on Julian’s now-defunct Texas-to-Philly based band, Blood’s Loving You Backwards LP, a collaborative effort between six bandmates. That experience pushed Julian toward a more personal process of recording, starting with home demos and then bringing them to Dan to shape into songs. This relationship ultimately led Julian to move to NYC.

  The sound of the album, recorded between Julian’s Bed Stuy basement and Dan’s Williamsburg studio, is the sound of a bright and beaming collaboration. Landing somewhere between lo-fi and hi-fi production, the songs have the glossiness of a radio-friendly hit mixed with the distortion and rough edges of a home demo. Every song keeps at least one element of the initial recording, while building around the loops and half-songs Julian scrapped together. The lyrics on the record span from humorous self-aware popisms (“‘you and I’ will soon be, used to be ‘us’”) to crushing realities of bitterness(“i’ll never forgive you, that’s how I keep you close”) to abstract imagery (“mothers wave from doorways, in ostinato”), all delivered with such an immediacy and fervor that in the middle of singing along, you wonder if this guy slept much last night.

  My Heart wrangles with heavy subject matter (love, disconnection, sexual frustration, emptiness etc.), but the terminal statement of the record is about the cleansing nature of pop music. That, if a song can force you to “bliss out” over a hook or a loop, or even make you dance, it can be the spoonful of sugar to swallow the hard pill with; this is what Victoryland strives to do: package the most exhausting realities of life, love, and the search for connection in a world starved of it, into a fun 2-5 minutes, and for the runtime of Victoryland’s first major statement, you might even feel like you’re not alone.

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  Magi Merlin

  She sings, she writes songs, she performs but it would do Magi Merlin a disservice to just label her as a singer-songwriter. With a keen taste for eccentric production qualities, the industrious artist from Montréal creates an exceptional interpretation of physical club music that integrates 90s house with Motown soul, drum'n'bass and West Coast hip-hop. At the same time, she has a big hand in the visual aspect of her music. The results are ultimately danceable, but still possess huge potential to grow on you thanks to a kaleidoscope of details: the brilliant debut album “Gone Girl” (2022), for example, reveals new facets of her intricate sound design with each listen, while singles like ‘Be Easy’ (2024) oscillate between sensuality and introspection. Away from any sort of commercialisation, Magi Merlin is always looking for the next palette of sound tones in her repertoire and has once again brilliantly found, expanded and established this with her latest EP ‘A Weird Little Dog’ (2025).

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  Fade Evare

  Fade Evare [feyd ih-vær] adjective Origin: Latin 1. A hopeful lust for the future; the starry-eyed discovery of youth. 2. The juncture of melancholic atmospheres and joyful harmony that triggers feelings of euphoric resolve. noun 1. Naarm/Melbourne-based electronic three-piece composed of siblings Mira and Tori Holleman and Madeleine Magee Carr , debuting in late 2024

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  Swapmeet

  Swapmeet is a band based on unceded Kaurna land. With an ever changing energy and aesthetic, Swapmeet’s sound is at once light-hearted and raw. With indie rock foundations, characterised by sonic experimentation, and a punk spirit, Swapmeet are known in the Adelaide circuit for their playful, chaotic onstage presence.

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  KatzPascale
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  Rian Brazil