ALTERNATIVE POST-PUNK ARTIST THXSOMCH ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM ‘THE SOUND OF YOU LAUGHING’

ALTERNATIVE POST-PUNK ARTIST THXSOMCH ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM THE SOUND OF YOU LAUGHING

OUT AUGUST 29 VIA ATLANTIC RECORDS

PRODUCED BY GRAYSKIES (D4VD, WISP)

TITLE TRACK ‘SOUND OF YOU LAUGHING’ FEAT FLAWED MANGOES OUT NOW – LISTEN & WATCH

Today, Toronto, Canada-based post-punk/alt-rock artist ThxSoMch announces his unhinged, commanding debut record The Sound of You Laughing out on August 29 via Atlantic Records, available to pre-save now. With the announcement.

Produced by grayskies (d4vd, Wisp) and mixed by legendary producer and engineer Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys) the album is as much self-expression as it is escapism, where he finds both solace and catharsis for himself and fans alike.

Recorded over seven months in Brazil, isolated from everything and everyone he knows alongside producer grayskies, ThxSoMch poured himself into a body of work that fully captures everything he is today–it’s vulnerable, raw and made with true intention and a clear purpose. Recalling what it felt like to make, the artist shares, “It put me in the best mental place I’ve been in for a long time. No phone, no English, no sense of time—just a flow state that let me escape everything else. Creating this was like a cigarette after a long craving. I hope it can be that for someone else too—a fix, a release, something to hold onto when everything else slips. It’s the sound of acceptance and the sound of burying what’s really going on. It’s mockery and coping, choking and surviving.”

ThxSoMch can’t wait to take the new music on the road, prepped with his most raucous live show yet. The tour will kick off in Salt Lake City on September 22 and will tear through the US.

The latest roaring track ‘Sound of You Laughing‘ took shape after musician Flawed Mangoes sent the artist various instrumentals, whose evocative guitar riff became the song’s foundation. After playing around with them and sending them to collaborator LMG for drum additions, ThxSoMch was so inspired, he freestyled nearly the whole song in one go. The artist shares, “I recorded it the next day and couldn’t stop listening to it. It sat on my computer for a while until I revisited it with grayskies while making more music. ‘Sound of You Laughing’ is both comfort and discomfort.” Defiant and uninhibited, each line is delivered with the slight twinge of pain that comes with digging up the past.

Watch ‘Sound of You Laughing’ (Official Video) | Listen

The matching heartfelt video was created backwards, built around looking at old photographs and embodies the undeniably captivating guitar riff. On the video, director Tommy Kiljoy recalls, “The whole goal was to nail that super specific feeling: that liminal nostalgia you get from seeing old playground photos. We really wanted to bottle that up in the visual. We played around with all these exterior lights to match that sound. I’m genuinely so in love with how this video turned out; it just perfectly clicks with the song’s energy.”

ThxSoMch burst onto the scene in 2022 with viral hit ‘SPIT IN MY FACE!’ which has garnered 672M+ streams on Spotify and charted on both the UK Official Charts and the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, he has only continued to elevate, evolve and expand his artistry and fast-growing, fervent global fan base, boasting over 413K followers on TikTok. Now, with over 1B career streams and three tracks with over 100M, he unrelentingly disrupts the post-punk, alt-rock space as he paves his own lane–unapologetically staying true to himself and his artistry like never before and prepares to reach new heights.

THXSOMCH LIVE – FALL 2025

NORTH AMERICA

SEPTEMBER

22 – The Complex – Salt Lake City, Utah

23 – The Marquis – Denver, Colorado

26 – Puzzles – Dallas, Texas

30 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, Arizona

OCTOBER

2 – The Regent – Los Angeles, California

4 – Cornerstone – Berkeley, California

7 – Star Theatre – Portland, Oregon

8 – Nectar Lounge – Seattle, Washington

9 – Fortune Sound Club – Vancouver, British Columbia

20 – Mod Club – Toronto, Ontario

22 – Studio TD – Montreal, Quebec

24 – Middle East Downstairs – Cambridge, Massachusetts

26 – le Poisson Rouge – New York, New York

28 – The Foundry – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

29 – Union Stage – Washington D.C

NOVEMBER

1 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, Georgia

3 – Neighborhood Theatre – Charlotte, North Carolina

4 – A&R Bar – Columbus, Ohio

6 – Reggies – Chicago, Illinois

8 – 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, Minnesota

ABOUT THXSOMCH

ThxSoMch is a genre-bending artist known for turning intrusive thoughts into anthems. He first caught attention with raw, chaotic tracks like ‘Spit In My Face!’ but quickly proved he wasn’t a one-note act. His music blurs the line between alt, emo, and experimental pop—equal parts violent, vulnerable, and sarcastic. After disappearing to Brazil for 7 months with no phone and no sense of time, he returned sharper, stranger, and more self-aware. His work now feels like a conversation with the part of yourself you usually ignore—dark, funny, and painfully honest.