23 September 2026 – Sandie Trash Opens the Door to Motel Dakota With Poupée Panik

French post-punk and new-wave project Sandie Trash has announced "Poupée Panik", a forthcoming single featuring Eric Debris of Métal Urbain and Richard Belgium of MI6. The track provides the first preview of upcoming nine-song album "Jeunes filles mödernes & Bazooka", although neither the single nor the album currently has a confirmed release date.

What has been revealed is a wonderfully specific conceptual setting: several songs revolve around Room 17 of the fictional Motel Dakota, giving the record a shared location populated by characters and stories rather than functioning as nine unrelated tracks wearing the same cover art. Titles including "La perversita", "Élégance déplacée", "Gloria Dakota" and "Sophie qui aime les avions" suggest a project drawing on French punk, new wave, pulp imagery and a certain amount of deliberate stylish misbehaviour.

Debris' involvement also establishes a direct line back to Métal Urbain, one of the pioneering French groups that fused punk aggression with electronic machinery in the late 1970s. That makes "Poupée Panik" less an exercise in retro dressing-up than a conversation across generations. There is currently no track to stream, meaning listeners face the increasingly rare experience of hearing about a release before being able to consume fifteen seconds of it immediately. Civilization may survive. In the meantime, Motel Dakota's Room 17 sounds like somewhere worth keeping an eye on.