Elliott and Virgile Arndt founded Faux Real in 2018, blending post-punk, glam rock, and fresh beats. The duo inspired boy band choreography, and a charged sensuality that has fast earned them a fervent fan following that includes among their number such iconic stars as Duran Duran, Paramore, and Wet Leg The duo celebrated Faux Ever with a tour dates in the UK, Europe, and the US. Highlights include a variety of festival appearances, a special show supporting cumgirl8 at Paris, FR’s La Station (May 29), an EU/UK run alongside instrumental British quartet (and City Slang labelmates) Los Bitchos, and North American performances at Brooklyn, NY’s Baby’s All Right and Los Angeles, CA’s The Echo. In addition, this summer saw the duo featured on electropop icons Metronomy’s “Contact High” alongside Franco-Korean artist Miki. “I can’t detach myself from the song,” said Metronomy’s Joe Mount of the collaboration, I hear ‘Contact High’ and I think ‘wow I’m involved with this!’ I can listen to it again and again.

Faux Real will hitting clubs across North America for a headline tour, starting February 8 in Austin, TX’s through a March 1st in New York City. Tickets for all announced dates are on sale Friday, December 13 at 10 am local time.

Known far and wide for their genre-bending, gravity-defying live performances, Faux Real – a.k.a. Los Angeles-based Franco-American brothers Virgile and Elliott Arndt – are heralding the upcoming tour with today’s premiere of an official video of “Walking Away From My Demons,” featuring footage captured on-stage earlier this year during the duo’s live run across Europe and the United Kingdom.

“This video was shot over some 20 shows on tour between May and June 2024, in Europe, the UK and the US,” say Faux Real. “We wanted to make a video medley of Walking Away From My Demons, a fan-favorite at our shows. So we set out to film WAFMD every time we played it, in rooms big or small, day or night, packed or not. It’s all phone footage shot by random audience members, by ourselves, by our videographer Ted Kayumba, to try and reflect what a Faux Real show feels like: sweaty, euphoric, absurd, over-the-top, earnest, glamorous, disgusting, sexual, sacred. Please enjoy responsibly and see you in the pit at the Faux Ever Tour next year.”

“Walking Away From My Demons” is but one of the many highlights found on Faux Real’s acclaimed debut album, Faux Ever, available everywhere now via City Slang Records. Hailed by The Guardian as “a high-camp, whimsical collage of Euro-dance, perky Joe Jackson-era synthpop, Sparks-sized harmonies and melodrama, plus post-punk, electro, glam rock and more,” the album includes such singles as “Full Circle,” “Hi Tension,” “Love On The Ground,” “Rent Free,” and “Faux Maux,” all of which thrust Faux Real’s sultry, surreal, and unclassifiable sound towards a glossier pop horizon, favoring ultra-digital software instruments while showcasing their long-standing knack for hugely catchy vocal melodies.

“We’re always questioning things and turning them upside down,” says Elliot Arndt.

“Our sound has never been more personal,” says Virgile Arndt. “The method to this specific madness has been one of constant change, with our studio locale never fixed, always more minimal than the last. Faux Ever is a reflection on art, brotherhood, authenticity, faults and triumphs.”

Faux Real 2025

8 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas
9 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves
12 – Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture
13 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
14 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
16 – San Francisco, CA – Kilowatt
19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Morrocan Lounge
21 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
24 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s
25 – Detroit, MI – Lager House
26 – Toronto, ON – Baby G
27 – Montreal, QC – Cabaret Foufounes
1 – New York, NY – 101 Ave A
6 – Cologne, DE – Bumann & Sohn
7 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo
8 – Luxembourg, LU – De Gudde Wellen
10 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
11 – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
12 – Berlin, DE – Kantine am Berghain
14 – Brussels, BE – Atelier 210
15 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Upstairs
18 – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
19 – London, UK – Scala
20 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
21 – Manchester, UK – YES Basement
22 – Glasgow, UK – The Flying Duck

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