Montreal-born, LA-transplanted producer Mike Silver is officially back with a new album ‘L.U.V. (Life In Ultra Violet)’ drops June 12th via his own imprint BGM Solutions, and honestly?
The first single alone is enough to put this on your radar for the year.
Let’s Kill Ourselves Is Exactly the Anthem 2026 Deserves
The lead single — featuring LA indie-electronic outfit Touching Ice and Miami partygirl duo TECHG1RLS — is a gloriously unhinged cocktail of electroclash, garage-rock and club energy. It started life as a cover of Chicago post-punkers The Ponys before gradually mutating into its own beast entirely. Think the chaotic joy of a three-way genre collision that somehow just… works.
Thematically it’s a cheeky one too. Silver describes the track as “universally uplifting” — a rallying cry built around collective malaise. We’re all kind of trudging forward together, and sometimes the most comforting thing you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all. Futility as fuel. We get it.
From Y2K Nostalgia to Sophisticated Edge
‘L.U.V.’ arrives five years after ’Memoryland’ (2021), Silver’s beloved dive into Y2K nostalgia and the music that shaped his earliest years. This new record picks up the thread — the subtitle quietly nods to Memoryland’s closing track “The Ultraviolet Room” — but pushes the story forward. Where that album was wide-eyed and youthful, L.U.V. draws from a sharper, more refined headspace.
“The overall vibe of ‘L.U.V.’ is meant to be sort of eurodance with a sophisticated edge,” Silver says. “It’s music for an adult lifestyle.”
The influences he’s pulling from this time are chefs kiss — Stuart Price (Les Rythmes Digitales), Giorgio Moroder, Felix da Housecat, Kraftwerk, Electric Six, Scissor Sisters, Annie, Kylie Minogue. A deliberate step past the current neo-electroclash revival moment (not that we’re complaining about that), Silver instead reaches into his own personal archive as someone who was actually in that conversation — an artist who shaped the era through original work and a string of high-profile remixes, without ever being pinned down to one scene or sound.
That’s always been the CFCF magic. Hard to classify. Impossible to ignore.
Catch Him Live
CFCF has also confirmed a run of live dates across the US and Canada. Here’s where to catch him:
March
🗓 12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Don Quixote w/ Ear
🗓 14 — San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall w/ Ear
May
🗓 01 — Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
🗓 15 — Montreal, QC @ Palomosa Festival 2026
More dates TBA.
‘L.U.V.’ is out June 12th via BGM Solutions. Follow CFCF on Instagram @cfcfmusic and don’t miss that single — stream it here.
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