Body Wash have announced their new album Laughing at Noise, will drop on November 20, 2026 from Light Organ Records. The album, is the Monteal duo’s third LP, since they started playing together in a dorm room practice space at university, are now in their early thirties. In that time, the city that nurtured their creative expression has become a markedly harsher place. Rents rise as brownfields are refashioned into real estate; DIY spaces wither in structural shadow; summer is hazier and heavier. How are we supposed to make a living, let alone build a life?

Today, the duo is sharing the album track “La Renommée”. Of the song, Steward says: “I’d been reading Kim Gordon’s autobiography and listening to a lot of EVOL-era Sonic Youth at the time and wanted to write a song that had the same hushed sense of urgency. Had no idea the bossa nova-inspired first verse drums would pan out as well as they did.”

Long Decter adds that “the lyrics are half about a fictional bartender, half about a real Montreal statue called La Renommée, a winged woman in Jeanne Mance Parc (who I was thinking about thanks to Kasia Van Schaik’s book Women Among Monuments.) The idea is that those two figures are maybe the same—standing guard over the city from their fixed perch.”

Laughing at Noise sees Long Decter and Steward sorting through what it means to grow older and keep on with both wariness and wisdom. The duo’s previous LP, I Held the Shape While I Could, was swirling, elegant, elastic. As they began writing songs for what would come next, both Long Decter and Steward found themselves pulled toward a more stripped-back approach to songcraft. Steward was enamoured with acoustic guitar, and Long Decter was writing on guitar and bass rather than on keys. The songs that became Laughing at Noise are playful and worn-in, and the sound of the record follows suit. The album is rougher around the edges than previous Bodywash releases, trading an adherence to fidelity for a looser, noisier sound that developed over months of experimentation.

The duo produced the record over the course of a year at Autoland Audio in Montreal’s Parc-Ex neighbourhood, where they’d previously worked on their debut LP, 2019’s Comforter, and brought in Asher Gould-Murtagh (Shirley Hurt, Mother Tongues) for mixing duties.

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