Photo by Femke Valks
On November 13, 2026, Diemen Sniep will release their sophomore album, Nobody Likes a Pity Party, via label JauneOrange.
The road to Nobody Likes a Pity Party was long, chaotic and, at times, gruelling. Years of work, countless hours of lost sleep and an ambition that continually pushed the project beyond its limits all went into its making.
That sense of excess runs through the record itself. Diemen Sniep moves between abrasive noise rock, post-punk tension, infectious melodies and more contemplative soundscapes. Rather than aiming for immediate cohesion, the album embraces its own contradictions, searching for a balance between violence, fragility and an obsessive attention to detail.
Rather than being confined to a single studio, Nobody Likes a Pity Party took shape across numerous locations in Belgium and the Netherlands: IJland Studios, Squid Studio, Chez Saint-Georges, Wood Studio, Kasbah Studios, Sphères Sonores, Koko Records and “Chad’s Studio.” A list almost as endless as the ambitions behind the record.
Produced by Maximiliaan de Hoogd, Yannick Lemoine and Jamshid Mahmoudy, mixed by Jamshid Mahmoudy at Kasbah Studios in Maastricht and mastered by Christian Bethge in Germany, Nobody Likes A Pity Party may not be an album for the ages, but it is, at the very least, an album that has travelled across the Schengen Area.
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