Warhaus announces 2025 tour and shares new single, "No Surprise" taken from Karaoke Moon due 22nd November on Play It Again Sam
Warhaus
Announces UK/EU 2025 Tour Dates
Shares New Single, "No Surprise"
New Album, Karaoke Moon
Due 22nd November Via Play It Again Sam
Having just announced forthcoming album, Karaoke Moon, Warhaus shares news of a 2025 tour, including London's Islington Assembly Hall on 4th April (full dates below).
Warhaus also shares a second taste of Karaoke Moon with new single "No Surprise". Initially a pumping disco track in the demo version, the song became transformed by producer Jasper Maekelberg into a sultry nightclub tune where attentive listeners will spot the hip-swaying shadow of Sade, complete with playful organ-driven singalong choruses, featuring vocalist Sylvie Kreusch in a leading role, singing seemingly innocently: “O, no surprise you took my keys.” Only a cold fish could sit through ‘No Surprise’ without nonchalantly snapping their fingers to it.
Warhaus - “No Surprise"
Youtube: https://youtu.be/BWDHlwRJ7xs?si=pL7-SlZ2Fdgl61pS
Streaming: https://warhaus.ffm.to/no-surprise
Album Preorder:
https://warhaus.ffm.to/karaoke-moon.OPR
Warhaus – 2025 Tour
March 11th – Netherlands, Groningen – Oosterpoort
March 13th – Norway, Oslo – Parkteatret
March 14th – Sweden, Stockholm – Nalen Club
March 16th – Denmark, Copenhagen – Amager Bio
March 18th – Netherlands, Amsterdam – Carre
March 19th – France, Paris – Olympia
March 20th – Germany, Keulen – Gloria
March 21st – Netherlands, Eindhoven – Klokhuis
March 22nd – Germany, Hamburg – Mojo Club
March 24th – Germany, Berlin – Huxleys
March 26th – Poland, Warsaw – Stodola
March 27th – Austria, Vienna – Fluc
March 28th – Hungary, Budapest – House Of Music
March 29th – Czech Republic, Prague – Divadlo Archa
March 31st – Belgium, Brussel – AB
April 1st - Belgium, Brussel – AB
April 2nd – Netherlands, Utrecht - Ronda
April 4th – UK, London – Islington Assembly Hall
April 23rd – France, Nantes – Stereolux
April 24th – France, Bordeaux – Rock School
April 25th – Spain, Santander – Escenario
April 27th – Portugal, Lisbon – Aula Magna
April 28th – Portugal, Porto – Casa Da Musica
April 29th – Spain, Madrid – Sala Mon
April 30th – Spain, Barcelona – Sala Apolo 2
May 2nd – Switzerland, Lausanne – Les Docks
May 3rd – Italy, Milan – Santereria
May 4th – Switzerland, Zurich – Mascote
Tickets available at
Exactly two years after Ha Ha Heartbreak, Warhaus, the solo project of Maarten Devoldere, returns with a new album: Karaoke Moon, out 22nd November on Play It Again Sam.
Devoldere had more than 50 songs on the shelf after two years of disciplined monk-like work. And what did the producer say after he submitted those demos? Meh. You can do better, Maarten. Deeper, more surprising, more inquisitive. Ten years ago, he wouldn’t have accepted that. But with time, Devoldere has learned that it pays off to trust the right people. And by the right people, he means Jasper Maekelberg. These musical soulmates spent nine months together in a close-knit collaboration in an attic studio in Bruges. The result is the most exciting Warhaus album to date.
Take the instrumental surprise ‘Jacky N.’, for example. A simple piano motif lifted to wonderous heights by classical pianist Julien Libeer, supported by a humming male choir and dreamy violins—it's just waiting for a matching feature film. In ‘What Goes Up’, you think you're dealing with a toxic dandy, whispering conspiratorially into his prey's ear. A sultry guitar strolls by, hands in pockets, on a bed of electronics. A group of strings peeks around the corner. But along the way the listener begs the question: are we listening to a confident macho or an impotent lover? “Down down, up, up,” Sylvie Kreusch sings along teasingly. It’s not the only track on Karaoke Moon where Warhaus plays with our modern views on masculinity. With subtle humor, Devoldere smoothly sidesteps discomfort, poking fun at himself and his kind with double-edged wit.
“I’m serving as your poet / among the other frauds,” he sings in ‘I Want More’. And later, in the slightly epic ‘Jim Morisson’, he scrutinizes the (typical?) male resistance to growing up (Peter Pan syndrome, anyone?) with sardonic pleasure. “It takes a man to love you, baby!” he sings with a soulful male choir. But who is he talking about? Us? Himself?
This way, Karaoke Moon connects passion and playfulness with a mysterious intensity. In ‘Zero One Code’, the German novelist Herman Hesse makes an appearance, accompanied by wailing horns and a resounding bell that recalls ‘Red Right Hand’ by Nick Cave. In ‘Hands of a Clock’, Devoldere conjures poetic imagery until he joins the choir in the richly orchestrated finale, where it gloriously merges with a piano melody. “I’m a child of the day and a child of the night / but they broke up and fought over me,” he muses. “So the stars and the moon are the part only you get to see.”
Yes, quite often it seems like Devoldere is shadowboxing with his own thoughts, juggling the concoctions of his subconscious. But dark soul-searching is not all of it. Evidence of this is the stunner ‘No Surprise’, initially a pumping disco track in the demo version, but transformed by producer Jasper Maekelberg into a sultry nightclub tune where attentive listeners will spot the hip-swaying shadow of Sade, complete with playful organ-driven singalong choruses, once again featuring Sylvie Kreusch in a leading role, singing seemingly innocently: “O, no surprise you took my keys.” Only a cold fish could sit through ‘No Surprise’ without nonchalantly snapping their fingers to it.
In any case, the singalong factor is high. Maybe not in Devoldere’s parlando, which sometimes borders on rap, but in the catchy melodies those rants are interspersed with—a dynamic you often hear in hip-hop but rarely as swinging as here, supported by falsetto choirs; that can be as expansive as staccato, as sexy, or provocative. It’s these clever—and often humorous—contrasts that turn Karaoke Moon into an album that grows with each listen, seducing the listener to delve deeper, layer after layer, line by line, into Warhaus’ unique universe. And yes, it’s an extraordinarily interesting place to be.
