Cafuné and Riovaz watch a relationship disintegrate on new single "Temporary Lover"

CAFUNÉ AND RIOVAZ WATCH A RELATIONSHIP DISINTEGRATE ON NEW SINGLE

“TEMPORARY LOVER” — STREAM

BITE REALITY, THE MULTI-PLATINUM DUO’S CONFRONTATIONAL NEW ALBUM,

SET TO ARRIVE ON SEPTEMBER 12 — PRE-SAVE

NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR THIS FALL

WITH SUPPORT FROM CRUSHED — SEE ALL DATES HERE

Today, Cafuné reveals the next twist of the knife in their upcoming album Bite Reality, with a collaboration with Riovaz, “Temporary Lover.” Sedona Schat’s voice punches through a rampaging electro-pop beat before Riovaz ices the bruise, his breezy flow providing a mellow counterpoint to Schat’s crackling energy. Masterfully toying with scuzzy guitars and unsparing drums, “Temporary Lover” watches as a relationship slips away through the cracks — Stream.

“We first learned about Riovaz a few years ago after he covered one of our tunes, and were instantly drawn to his unique style of yearning club music,” says Cafuné’s Noah Yoo. “I was listening to him a lot when we wrote ‘Temporary Lover,’ so to have him be a part of the final record feels full circle.”

Written and produced by band members Noah Yoo and Sedona Schat, Bite Reality will arrive on September 12 via the band’s own Aurelians Club label, distributed by SoundOn. As the New York duo stare head-on into a world of digital degradation, they ask what humanity looks like in an era increasingly defined by AI, algorithms, and artificial intimacy. Recorded in 2024, the record finds the band at a familiar crossroads, reckoning between real and fake. The difference, this time around, is that they’re doing it in the real world, too. They’re no longer running from the bite of reality, but biting reality back; their lyrics teem with brutal honesty, not avoidant analogy.

So far from Bite Reality, Cafuné have shown off the wide range of the upcoming album with two previous singles: the album’s thematic centerpiece “e-Asphyxiation” and “Attack + Release,” a sultry bossa-nova-inspired ballad.

Cafuné's 3X Platinum song "Tek It" surpassed 1 billion streams in part due to its cultural moment on TikTok, making SoundOn a fitting release partner for the band's new music about the pitfalls of the internet. Since 2022, the song has received its own Fortnite emote, and was sampled in Lil Uzi Vert’s single “Red Moon.”

This September and October, Cafuné will set out on their Alive Online Tour, playing the largest rooms of their career to date. Along the way, they will be supported by maximalist dream-pop duo crushed. All tour info can be found here and below.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES

September 19 - Washington, DC - The Atlantis*

September 20 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore - The Foundry*

September 22 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall*

September 23 - Montréal, QC - Bar Le Ritz PDB*

September 24 - Toronto, ON - The Great Hall*

September 26 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall*

September 27 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon*

September 30 - Denver, CO - Globe Hall*

October 2 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge*

October 5 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios*

October 6 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile - Madame Lou's*

October 8 - San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club*

October 10 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom*

October 12 - Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge*

October 14 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues Dallas - Cambridge Room*

October 15 - Austin, TX - The Parish*

October 17 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade - Hell*

October 18 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle - Backroom*

October 22 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg*

*with support from crushed

All tour dates here

ABOUT CAFUNÉ:

Four years ago, in a vastly different context, Cafuné—the indie-pop powerhouse of Noah Yoo and Sedona Schat—released Running, a bionic debut album that soundtracked a collective urge for post-pandemic escapism. That record, Schat says, “is literally all about running away.” But as the duo enters its tenth year, their foundational questions—of authenticity, artificiality, and the existential tension between the two—feel more pressing than ever. “The entire time that the band has existed,” Schat says, “it’s always been about negotiating between digital manipulation and raw realness.”

This moment—one increasingly defined by AI, algorithms, and artificial intimacy—is very much a bastion of “digital manipulation” in itself. Recorded in 2024, their new record Bite Reality (out September 12 via SoundOn) finds the band at a familiar crossroads, reckoning between real and fake. The difference, this time around, is that they’re doing it in the real world, too. And it sounds like it. Bite Reality captures Cafuné in a confrontational state, no longer running from the bite of reality, but biting reality back. Their guitars growl; their vocals snarl; their lyrics teem with brutal honesty, not avoidant analogy. “Self-flagellation is not cute after a certain point,” Yoo says, with a laugh. “That’s not even helpful,” Schat adds. “What helps you to be better is actually facing: What is really wrong, and how do I work through it?”

Bite Reality is about the fine line between documenting your existence and doing the work to actually exist. What does humanity look, sound, and feel like in a dehumanizing era? Why prove that you’re alive when you can just live?

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Taylor Ohryn