Swedish Electro Punk Duo The Guilt Announce New Album “Naked Rat Dance”

Swedish electropunk duo The Guilt return with their third full-length album, Naked Rat Dance, out January 15th via Icons Creating Evil Art. The Malmö pair — Emma Wahlgren and Lizzy — deliver their most emotionally charged and sonically expansive work to date: an album built from friction, velocity, and the exhilarating chaos of being human. “Naked Rat Dance is a major emotional output,” the band explains. “The range is wider but it hits harder.”

The Guilt have long been known for their high-octane, glitter-stained electropunk — but here, their sound stretches into a ferocious new spectrum. Riot grrrl bluntness bends into goth-rock grandeur, synths lurch with deranged weight, and melodies chase something absurdly, defiantly epic. As the band puts it: “We took all we’ve got — all our tools and everything we feel — and we ran with it. Or danced with it.”

Since consolidating into the core duo of Lizzy and Emma, The Guilt’s creative process has been, in their own words, “a hysterical ride.” They never aimed for a genre, only a feeling — and those feelings came fast. “It’s like driving at high speed with no space between the vehicles,” they say of the album’s unhinged emotional acceleration.