Sketches
 of Loss

This is not a simple record; it's an emotional outlet. After a decade away from the guitar, "Sketches of Loss" is a return to primal sources—rock'n'roll, garage, punk—born from a vital urgency and a brutal proximity to death.

 

The album is the reflection of a year of mourning, marked by the loss of his son, then his father. It is an opus of rare intensity. The production is minimalist and visceral: a voice, a guitar, a bass, and drum loops. Futuro Pelo sought a "direct, compact, spatial, garage, and stripped-down sound," a 14-track work due in spring 2026. A profoundly intimate album, featuring the writing and vocals of his partner, La Flaca, on the final track "Trauma," whose lyrics, written while she was pregnant, strangely preceded the tragedy.

 

On the visual side, the artist is featured in a "temporal face-off": a portrait of Benjamin Sportès at 24 on the front, and him from the back at 59 on the reverse, capturing the mirror effect of a before and after that gives full meaning to this work. Futuro Pelo will also return to the stage, with a solo live show conceived as a performance seeking the purity and theatricality of a John Maus, Sleaford Mods, or the legendary Grace Jones One Man Show directed by Jean Paul Goude.

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This new album, "Sketches of Loss," is not just a record; it’s proof of a fierce resilience, an essential return to the rock'n'roll bone for Futuro Pelo on the Brussels indie label EXAG’ Records.