French grunge/alternative rockers Sex Shop Mushrooms stream their new full-length album »131217«; available now on CD, vinyl and digital!
Paris, France based grunge/alternative rockers Sex Shop Mushrooms have just released their sophomore full-length album »131217« on January 30th, 2026.
Listen to »131217« on all major streaming platforms!
Tracklist:
01. Help Me I’m Cumming
02. Juicy Victim
03. Nice Place To Die
04. Scam
05. Mush
06. Quality Wine
07. 131217
08. Dissonance
09. Today My Girlfriend’s Dead
10. Submerged
11. Your Eyes
Courtesy of NRV Promotion:
“BREAK NORMS, SOUND LOUD!”
That’s how the four piece band Sex Shop Mushrooms define themselves. Raw lyrics and striking soundscape.
At the crossroads of ’90s grunge and modern energy, their debut album »God Doesn’t Exist«, self-released in October 2024, quickly made waves. With 350,000 streams and hundreds of physical albums sold, the album has been widely praised by critics, including Rolling Stone, Libération, and Oui FM. It’s impossible not to compare them to a small unknown Seattle band from the ’90s, both in their message, voice, and their raw, captivating music. Sex Shop Mushrooms is the very embodiment of the grunge scene revival in France.
The band has conquered the stage with over 80 concerts across France, performing as the opening act for iconic groups, notably at La Boule Noire and Point Éphémère. Their stage presence, alternating between moments of pure rage and introspective calm, continues to leave a lasting impression, attracting more and more fans with each performance.
Photo by @_anatheme
In January 2026, the band takes things further. After playing the main stage at Xtreme Fest and opening for Pogo Car Crash Control, Sex Shop Mushrooms return with their second album, »131217«, mixed and mastered by Seattle legend Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney). Gritty, chaotic, and unapologetically alive, it’s their rawest statement yet.
With »131217«, the band confirms its place among the new faces of French grunge. The four musicians transform their rage into a collective catharsis. The album captures this wild energy without ever trying to tame it. After a debut album sometimes considered too polished, conceived as a showcase of skill, they opt for roughness this time.
The album is like a chaotic journey, an emotional voyage where each track tells a story of struggle. The opening track, »Help Me I’m Cumming«, spits out all the pent-up anger, abrasive riffs and a martial pulse painting a picture of enraged humanity, ready to bite. Very quickly, »Nice Place To Die« sounds like a scar transformed into a manifesto, the intimate elevated to the status of an anthem.
The atmosphere becomes more suffocating with »131217«, a raw vision of a world collapsing, dirty and sticky like everyday betrayals. Then comes »Dissonance«, a cathartic deluge, a cry of liberation as much as an acknowledgment of confinement. And when »Today My Girlfriend’s Dead« resonates, the album closes on a fragile, almost serene moment, where vulnerability surfaces before shattering under the weight of reality.
»131217« is more than just an album: it’s a declaration of war against complacency and artifice. Sex Shop Mushrooms defends its vision of honest, raw music, rooted in DIY and geared towards the stage. Supporting the local scene, resisting imposed formats, building an independent counterculture: this is the battle the band wages, whether in the basements where it honed its craft or on the big stages where it now makes its mark.
The themes explored are radical and relevant: uprooting, violence, loss of bearings, and the search for identity. Sex Shop Mushrooms doesn’t seek to reassure, but rather to confront each listener with their own inner dissonance. The album denounces the injustices we all condone, consciously or unconsciously, and reminds us that no one is immune. Each track hits like a slap in the face, revealing the violence of our contradictions.
Order »131217« here:
sexshopmushrooms.com | sexshopmushrooms.bandcamp.com
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well